Award Name Oklahoma Book Award Award category Nonfiction The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country\'s bloodiest civil disturbance of the century.
Brophy draws on his own extensive research into contemporary accounts and court documents to chronicle this devastating riot, showing how and why the rule of law quic.
Thirty city blocks were burned to the ground, perhaps 150 died, and the prosperous black community of Greenwood, Oklahoma, was turned to rubble.
Award Name Oklahoma Book Award Award category Nonfiction The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country\'s bloodiest civil disturbance of the century