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Death In A Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot Of 1921

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Originally published 1982
Authors Scott Ellsworth
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About Death In A Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot Of 1921


When a crowd began to gather outside the jail in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the evening of May 31, 1921, the fate of one of its prisoners, a young black male, seemed assured. Accused of attempting to rape a white woman, Dick Rowland was with little doubt about to be lynched. . . .

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