The Ground Breaking
The Ground Breaking And then they were gone.More than one-thousand homes and businesses. Looted, burned, and bombed from the air.Over the course of less than twenty-four hours in the spring of 1921,…
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The Ground Breaking
And then they were gone.More than one-thousand homes and businesses. Looted, burned, and bombed from the air.Over the course of less than twenty-four hours in the spring of 1921, Tulsa's infamous "Black Wall Street" was wiped off the map--and erased from the history books. Restaurants and movie theaters, churches and doctors' offices, a hospital, a public library, a post office.
But there were some secrets that would not die.A riveting and essential new book, The Ground Breaking not only tells the long-suppressed story of the notorious Tulsa Race Massacre. Official records were disappeared, researchers were threatened, and the worst single incident of racial violence in American history was kept hidden for more than fifty years. It also unearths the lost history of how the massacre was covered up, and of the courageous