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Death in a Promised Land
Written by Scott Ellsworth
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Exhaustively researched, this definitive account of the Tulsa race riot and its aftermath is a critically acclaimed study of American race relations.
Author
Scott Ellsworth
Scott Ellsworth received his Ph.D. from Duke University and currently teaches history at the University of Michigan. He served as the chief historian on the Tulsa Race Riot Commission (1999–2000) and is chair of the committee leading the effort to identify the unmarked graves of victims of the 1921 riot for the upcoming 2021 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5So well researched and told with integrity and honesty. The time the author took to research the history of Tulsa and the nation and what the forces were to lead up to the incident is rare now days.