| Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 Contributor(s): Ellsworth, Scott (Author), Franklin, John Hope (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0807117676 ISBN-13: 9780807117675 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1992 Annotation: Exhaustively researched, Death in a Promised Land is a compelling story of racial ideologies, southwestern politics, and yellow journalism, and of an embattled black community's struggle to hold onto its land and freedom. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - History | African American |
| Dewey: 976.6 |
| LCCN: 81006017 |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6.06" W x 9.04" (0.57 lbs) 184 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Oklahoma |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Widely believed to be the most extreme incident of white racial violence against African Americans in modern United States history, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre resulted in the destruction of over one thousand black-owned businesses and homes as well as the murder of between fifty and three hundred black residents. Exhaustively researched and critically acclaimed, Scott Ellsworth's Death in a Promised Land is the definitive account of the Tulsa race riot and its aftermath, in which much of the history of the destruction and violence was covered up. It is the compelling story of racial ideologies, southwestern politics, and incendiary journalism, and of an embattled black community's struggle to hold onto its land and freedom. More than just the chronicle of one of the nation's most devastating racial pogroms, this critically acclaimed study of American race relations is, above all, a gripping story of terror and lawlessness, and of courage, heroism, and human perseverance. |