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Built from the Fire

The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street

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An edition of Built from the Fire (2023)

Built from the Fire

The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street

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When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to the Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his family joined a community soon to become 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, laying waste to thirty-five blocks and murdering as many as three hundred people in one of the worst acts of racist violence in U.S. history.

The Goodwins and their neighbors soon rebuilt the district into “a Mecca,” in Ed’s words, where nightlife thrived and small businesses flourished. Ed bought a newspaper to chronicle Greenwood’s resurgence and battles against white bigotry, and his son Jim, an attorney, embodied the family’s hopes for the civil rights movement. But by the 1970s urban renewal policies had nearly emptied the neighborhood. 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 to revive it once again.

In Built from the Fire, journalist Victor Luckerson tells the true story behind a potent national symbol of success and solidarity and weaves an epic tale about a neighborhood that refused, more than once, to be erased.
-- penguinrandomhouse.com

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Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
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New York
Copyright Date
2023

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Dewey Decimal Class
976.6/8600496073
Library of Congress
F704.T92

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ebook
Pagination
672

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Open Library
OL48762927M
ISBN 10
0593134389
ISBN 13
9780593134382
LCCN
2022055078
OCLC/WorldCat
1355043427
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B0BCV1R1WC

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