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Title: Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Scott Ellsworth, John Hope Franklin ISBN: 0-8071-1767-6 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Pub. Date: February, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Providing a balanced account to remove the Veil
Comment: Rarely do we have an instance when a teller of history valiantly attempts to remain objective. The author has done well in presenting a historical perspective that does not seek unconscionable blame nor claim illusionary vindication. These acts of historical literary balance, lay the foundations upon which great civilizations have risen. Having heard the oral traditions of Greenwood, it would have been very easy to paint all white people with a broad stroke of UNDENIABLE EVIL, as it would have been with providing all blacks with a halo of SAINTHOOD. By piecemilling together facts, reminants of what many have sought to destroy, along with balancing the personal interviews, the author has provided the impetus for how we should begin discussing our history. As a Black American, I feel slighted, as if I have just been walking in circles, having never learned of moments such as Greenwood, which helps us to better understand who we are. It is strange how we have never seen war as a viable option, but have been labeled as the most violent and retched. Thanks to the author and his supporters, who have finally began removing the veil of America's History. May others, who set themselves upon pedestals, possess enough courage to pursue such a task.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bias even in these reviews...
Comment: Regardless of whatever facts one can produce that might make the black people involved in this travesty look guilty, America had never bombed itself before this point. I see one review talking about, there was a war and the black people lost. Yes, we lost this war, and every other war against racism. And looking at this incident allows us all to see why black people will continue to lose for a while: we don't own the bombs and we don't run the government. I don't want to see any condemnations of the truth, and the truth is that the black people were the victims in this. To sum it all up: they were too successful to be in America. We need books like these that show us all of the things that the history books that school our children conveniently forget to include, and all of the odds against black people being successful in this country. I didn't read the book but I commend the author for taking one step towards raising the racial consciousness levels of citizens.
Rating: 2
Summary: This book seems to be clearly biased.
Comment: Many of the "facts" in this book are clearly in dispute. Other historians and researchers have uncovered evidence that contradicts or even debunks some of the supposeded events. This book seems to try and make the 1921 Tulsa Race WAR look like a very one-sided affair, with whites being "guilty" and blacks being "innocent". The truth is that both sides were at fault. A war broke out, and the blacks lost.
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Title: The Burning : Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Tim Madigan ISBN: 0312272839 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 02 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Alfred L. Brophy, Randall Kennedy ISBN: 0195146859 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy by James S. Hirsch ISBN: 0618108130 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 22 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District by Hannibal B. Johnson ISBN: 157168221X Publisher: Eakin Publications Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans by Jr. Alfred A. Moss, John Hope Franklin ISBN: 0375406719 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 11 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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