The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Karlos K. Hill, Kevin Matthews - 9780806168562

The 1921 Tulsa Race MassacreA Photographic History\nAuthor(s): Karlos K. Hill, Kevin Matthews\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806168562, 978-0806168562\nSynopsis\nOn the evening of May 31, 1921, and in the early morning hours of June 1, several thousand white citizens and authorities violently attacked the African American Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the course of some twelve hours of mob violence, white Tulsans reduced one of the nation's most prosperous black communities to rubble and killed an estimated 300 people, mostly African Americans. This richly illustrated volume, featuring more than 175 photographs, along with oral testimonies, shines a new spotlight on the race massacre from the vantage point of its victims and survivors.\n\n Historian and Black Studies professor Karlos K. Hill presents a range of photographs taken before, during, and after the massacre, mostly by.