Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
by Scott Ellsworth
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Author: Scott EllsworthForeword: John Hope Franklin
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1992-02
ISBN: 0807117676
Number of pages: 159
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
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Book Review: Excellent Read. Truth Comes Out.
Summary: 5 Stars
It's hard to surprise me nowadays with issues like the Jena 6, Hurricane Katrina versus Fema, and the Schlumberger case going on, but I was caught offguard when I visited Chicago's DuSable Museum recently. I saw a video called "4 Little Girls" and heard something about Black Wall Street. I was confused about this location because I'd never heard it in my entire years of elementary and high school or in college. I started doing some research on it, such as reading this book, and once again, America shows its ugly past of racism, bigotry, and determination to make sure that Blacks could not succeed in America.
Ellsworth details the issues surrounding the bombing, burning, and looting of a small community of Blacks in Tulsa, Oklahoma called Black Wall Street. The Red Cross was around for the Jena 6 rally, so it was no shock to me that they were around to help Blacks of Tulsa when their homes were taken. Due to situations like Emmitt Till, it was easy for me to believe that the situation on the elevator with the white attendant happened, as well as the hangings that followed before and after.
This book was thought-provoking, educational, and I will pass the word along. The eeriest part of this whole read was the way the government handled Black Tulsans getting their homes, jobs, and businesses back sounds exactly like how the government is handling the incidents with Hurricane Katrina. In Tulsa, Blacks were pushed out of their community, imprisoned for supposedly obstructing justice, not given proper food/water/clothes/money and instead being treated like prisoners, and then forced into working from prison-like terms. When people were allowed back into their own community (even though their only "crime" was self-defense), they were made to live in tents. Now doesn't this sound a lot like those trailers that Hurricane Katrina victims are living in?
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Summary of Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
When a crows began to gather outside the jail in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the evening of May 31, 1921., the fate of one of its prisoners, a young black male, seemed assured. Accused of attempting to rape a white woman, Dick Rowland was with little doubt about to be lynched.But in another part of town, a small group of black men, many of them World War I veterans, decided to risk lives for a different vision of justice. Before it was all over, Tulsa had erupted into one of America's worst racial nightmares, leaving scores dead and hundreds of homes and businesses destroyed.
Exhaustively researched, 'Death in a Promised Land' is 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. More than just the chronicle of one of the nation's most devastating race riots, this critically acclaimed study of American race relations is, above all, a gripping story of terror and lawlessness, and of courage, hedonism, and human perserverance.
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