A remarkable book on an astonishing incident too long overlooked, Riot and Remembrance tells us that history does not always belong to the victors, and that the past is never truly forgotten.
James S. He lives in the Boston area with his wife, Sheryl, and their children, Amanda and Garrett. Drawing on period documents and interviews with survivors and their descendants, the author of Hurricane offers a definitive account of the race riot that destroyed the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, leaving hundreds of black residents dead, and describes the battle for belated justice and reparations to the victims.
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So James Hirsch, author of the acclaimed book Hurricane , shows in this careful examination of a particularly shameful episode in modern American history. On the evening of May 31, , fueled by rumors and newspaper headlines charging that a young black man had assaulted a young white women, a mob of armed white citizens burned much of the predominantly African American Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, to the ground.
More than 35, and as many as , Tulsans died, most of them black. Tulsa's city fathers did all they could to keep the news of this mass lynching from spreading; they found convenient scapegoats including a blameless but prominent African American businessman and went about excising mention of the Greenwood affair from official documents.
