The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 (Written by Tim Madigan)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/413307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 Author: Tim Madigan Narrator: William Andrew Quinn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: February 25, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. Thirty-four square blocks of Tulsa's Greenwood community were reduced to smoldering rubble. And now, eighty years later, the death toll of what is known as the Tulsa Race Riot is more difficult to pinpoint. Conservative estimates put the number of dead at about 100 (75% of the victims are believed to have been black), but the actual number of casualties could be triple that. The Tulsa Race Riot Commission, formed two years ago to determine exactly what happened, has recommended that restitution to the historic Greenwood Community would be good public policy and do much to repair the emotional as well as physical scars of this most terrible incident in our shared past. With chilling details, humanity, and the narrative thrust of compelling fiction, The Burning will recreate the town of Greenwood at the height of its prosperity, explore the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust between its black residents and neighboring Tulsa's white population, narrate events leading up to and including Greenwood's annihilation, and document the subsequent silence that surrounded the tragedy.