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By Randy Krehbiel
In 1921 Tulsa?s Greenwood District, known then as the nation?s ?Black Wall Street,?
was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States.
But on May 31 of that year, a white mob, inflamed by rumors that a young Black man
had attempted to rape a white teenage girl, invaded Greenwood. By the end of the
following day, thousands of homes and businesses lay in ashes, and perhaps as many
as three hundred people were dead.Tulsa, 1921 shines new light into the shadows
that have long been cast over this extraordinary instance of racial violence. With the
clarity and descriptive power of a veteran journalist, author Randy Krehbiel digs deep
into the events and their aftermath and investigates decades-old questions about the
local culture at the root of what one writer has called a white-led pogrom. Krehbiel
analyzes local newspaper accounts in an unprecedented effort to gain insight into the
minds of contemporary Tulsans. In the process he considers how the Tulsa
