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Black Birds in the Sky
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre | Brandy Colbert
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A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood Districta thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in US history. But how did it come to pass? What exactly happened? And why are the events unknown to so many of us today? These are the questions that award-winning author Brandy Colbert seeks to answer in this unflinching nonfiction account of the Tulsa Race Massacre. In examining the tension that was brought to a boil by many factorswhite resentment of Black economic and political advancement, the resurgence of white supremacist groups, the tone and perspective of the media, and morea portrait is drawn of an event singular in its devastation, but not in its kind. It is part of a legacy of white violence that can be traced from our country's earliest days through Reconstruction, the Civil Rights movement in the midtwentieth century, and the fight for justice and accountability Black Americans still face today. The Tulsa Race Massacre has long failed to fit into the story Americans like to tell themselves about the history of their country. This book, ambitious and intimate in turn, explores the ways in which the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre is the story of Americaand by showing us who we are, points to a way forward.
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Addison_Reads
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An excellent read about a horrific event in our history that needs to be discussed more. I knew absolutely nothing about the Tulsa Race Massacre until recently. I was never taught it in high school or college.

Brandy Colbert blends survivor stories with journalistic research to tell the tragic story of both the before and after of the Tulsa Massacre.

This was not an easy read, but I'm thankful for authors like this speaking the truth.

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Bookish_Gal
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I think this was a very well written book. It started with the history of race riots, building up what happened the years before Tulsa. Then moved on to the Tulsa Riot, as it was a quick night. Then closed with the aftermath, up to how we‘re remembering it today. There‘s a lot going on in this history.

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Smartypants
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Excellent book on the history of the Tulsa race riots. A good perspective on the history of racism in the US that does not take place in the American south.

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Nebklvr
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An extremely important event is chronicled in a very uneven book. From moments of “hold your breath intensity” to a recitation of person, place, and time. Thanks to Edelweiss for an early review copy.

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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This is an easily read and understood book, but it is not an easy, light read. America has a vast and horrible history surrounding race and Colbert does a stellar job laying out the foundation before the Tulsa Massacre, and in describing the even itself. Painful history that most of us were never taught in school, but need to do the work to learn. There is even an embarrassing chapter about my home state Oregon, never fun but vital to acknowledge