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In 1921, Greenwood, an affluent Black neighborhood in Tulsa, was destroyed by mobs of white Oklahomans. Ellsworth tells the story of the massacre and Tulsa's efforts to reckon with its history. While researching the massacre for his 1992 book (Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921), Ellsworth found that primary sources were hard to come by: official records had been purged, and survivors had been discouraged from speaki...Log In or Sign Up to Read More