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Author Luckerson, Victor, author. Author.

Title Built from the fire : the epic story of Tulsa's Greenwood district, America's Black Wall Street : one hundred years in the neighborhood that refused to be erased / Victor Luckerson.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [2023]

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  976.686 L964b 2023    ---  Available
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Edition First edition.
Description xiv, 656 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
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volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references in "Notes" (pages 493-619) and index.
Contents Prologue -- Do not hesitate, but come -- And sometimes better, besides -- Black capital -- False promises -- The war at home and abroad -- "Get a gun and get busy" -- The massacre -- A conspiracy in plain sight -- Far from home -- The myth of an impervious people -- Sugar Man -- Family business -- A world apart -- Separate but equal -- Crossing the line -- You'll be a man, my son -- Somewhere between hope and expectation -- A slower burn -- Handoffs -- In flesh and stone -- Reconciliation day -- "Trust the system" -- This is our time -- Dissolution -- The rituals of remembrance -- Beyond ceremony -- Epilogue.
Summary "When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to Greenwood, Tulsa, his family joined a growing community on the cusp of becoming the center of Black life in the West. But, just a few years later, on May 31, 1921, the teenaged Ed hid in a bathtub as a white mob descended on his neighborhood. They laid waste to 35 blocks and murdering as many as 300 people. The Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the worst acts of racist violence in United States history. The Goodwins and many of their neighbors soon rebuilt the district into "a Mecca," in Ed's words, where nightlife thrived, small businesses flourished, and an underworld economy lived comfortably alongside public storefronts. Ed grew into a prominent businessman and bought a community newspaper called the Oklahoma Eagle to chronicle its resurgence and battles against white bigotry. He and his genteel wife, Jeanne, raised an ambitious family, who became literal poster-children for black progress, and their son Jim, an attorney, embodied their hopes for the Civil Rights Movement. But, by the 1970s urban renewal policies had nearly emptied the neighborhood, even as Jim and his neighbors tried to hold onto pieces of Greenwood. Today, the newspaper remains, and Ed's granddaughter Regina represents the neighborhood in the Oklahoma state legislature, working alongside a new generation of local activists"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) -- Race relations -- History.
Tulsa (Okla.) -- Race relations -- History.
Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921.
Goodwin family.
Urban renewal -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa -- History.
African Americans -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa -- Biography.
Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) -- Biography.
Tulsa (Okla.) -- Biography.
Goodwin family (OCoLC)fst00213254
African Americans (OCoLC)fst00799558
African Americans -- Social conditions (OCoLC)fst00799698
Race relations (OCoLC)fst01086509
Urban renewal (OCoLC)fst01162536
Oklahoma -- Tulsa (OCoLC)fst01205469
Tulsa Race Massacre (Tulsa, Oklahoma : 1921) (OCoLC)fst02009167
Chronological Term 1921
Genre/Form Biographies (OCoLC)fst01919896
History (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
Added Title Epic story of Tulsa's Greenwood district, America's Black Wall Street
ISBN 9780593134375 hardcover ; acid-free paper
0593134370 hardcover ; acid-free paper
9780593134382 electronic book

 
    
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