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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

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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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references in "Notes" (pages 493-619) and index

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collective biography

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Built from the fire

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1345221116

Responsibility statement

Victor Luckerson

Sub title

the epic story of Tulsa's Greenwood district, America's Black Wall Street : one hundred years in the neighborhood that refused to be erased

Summary

A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa<U+2019>s Greenwood district, or “Black Wall Street,” that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrification. 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, a white mob descended on his neighborhood, laying 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 place where nightlife thrived, small businesses flourished, and an underworld economy lived comfortably alongside public storefronts. Ed became a prominent businessman and bought a community newspaper called the Oklahoma Eagle to chronicle the community's resurgence as well as battles against white bigotry. He and his wife, Jeanne, raised an ambitious family, who became 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. --, Adapted from dust jacket

Target audience

adult

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Epic story of Tulsa's Greenwood district, America's Black Wall Street

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