Overview
2022 Carnegie Medal Nonfiction Longlist
One of The New York Times' ā11 New Books We Recommend This Weekā | One of Oprah Daily's ā20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This Mayā | One of The Oklahoman's ā15 Books to Help You Learn About the Tulsa Race Massacre as the 100-Year Anniversary Approachesā |A The Week book of the week
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And then they were gone.
More than one thousand homes and businesses. Restaurants and movie theaters, churches and doctorsā offices, a hospital, a public library, a post office. Looted, burned, and bombed from the air.Ā
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Over the course of less than twenty-four hours in the spring of 1921, Tulsaās infamous āBlack Wall Streetā was wiped off the mapāand erased from the history books. Official records were disappeared, researchers were threatened, and the worst single incident of racial violence in American history was kept hidden for more than fifty years. But there were some secrets that would not die.
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A riveting and essential new book, The Ground Breaking not only tells the long-suppressed story of the notorious Tulsa race massacre. It also unearths the lost history of how the massacre was covered up, and of the courageous individuals who fought to keep the story alive. Most important, it recounts the ongoing archaeological saga and the search for the unmarked graves of the victims of the massacre, and of the fight to win restitution for the survivors and their families.
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Both a forgotten chronicle from the nationās past and a story ripped from todayās headlines, The Ground Breaking is a page-turning reflection on how we, as Americans, must wrestle with the parts of our history that have been buried for far too long.
This book title, The Ground Breaking (The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City's Search for Justice), ISBN: 9780593182994, by Scott Ellsworth, published by Penguin Publishing Group (May 17, 2022) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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