Research Catalog

Title

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.

Author

Luckerson, Victor

Publication

• New York : Random House, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Description

xiv, 656 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 25 cm

Summary

"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, the teenaged Ed hid in a bathtub as a white mob descended on his neighborhood. They laid 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 Mecca," in Ed's words, where nightlife thrived, small businesses flourished, and an underworld economy lived comfortably alongside public storefronts. Ed grew into a prominent businessman and bought a community newspaper called the Oklahoma Eagle to chronicle its resurgence and battles against white bigotry. He and his genteel wife, Jeanne, raised an ambitious family, who became literal 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"--

Alternative Title

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

Subject

• Goodwin family
• 1921
• Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921
• Urban renewal > Oklahoma > Tulsa > History
• African Americans > Oklahoma > Tulsa > Social conditions
• African Americans > Oklahoma > Tulsa > Biography
• African Americans
• African Americans > Social conditions
• Race relations
• Urban renewal
• Tulsa (Okla.) > Race relations > History
• Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) > Race relations > History
• Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) > Biography
• Tulsa (Okla.) > Biography
• Oklahoma > Tulsa
• Oklahoma

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

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

Contents

Prologue -- Do not hesitate, but come -- And sometimes better, besides -- Black capital -- False promises -- The war at home and abroad -- "Get a gun and get busy" -- The massacre -- A conspiracy in plain sight -- Far from home -- The myth of an impervious people -- Sugar Man -- Family business -- A world apart -- Separate but equal -- Crossing the line -- You'll be a man, my son -- Somewhere between hope and expectation -- A slower burn -- Handoffs -- In flesh and stone -- Reconciliation day -- "Trust the system" -- This is our time -- Dissolution -- The rituals of remembrance -- Beyond ceremony -- Epilogue.

Call Number

Sc E 23-1222

ISBN

• 9780593134375
• 0593134370
• 9780593134382 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022055077

OCLC

1345221116

Author

Luckerson, Victor, author. Author

Title

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.

Publisher

New York : Random House, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

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

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Chronological Term

1921

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-1222