A best selling author investigates the causes of the twentieth centurys deadliest race riot and how its legacy has scarred and shaped a community over the past eight decades on a warm night in may 1921 thousands of whites many deputized by the local police swarmed through the greenwood section of tulsa oklahoma killing scores of blacks looting and ultimately burning the neighborhood to the ground. Riot and remembrance the tulsa race war and its legacy english edition ebook hirsch james s amazonde kindle shop. A best selling author investigates the causes of the twentieth centurys deadliest race riot and how its legacy has scarred and shaped a community over the past eight decades on a warm night in. The oldest woman mildred has lived through the tulsa race riots of 1921 and has kept her secrets well after reading this accomplished novel i wanted to know more about the holocaust in tulsa and to find out why it was so underreported at the time and for the next 50 years james hirschs book seems to be about the best of a new crop of revisionist history and i read the whole thing in . A best selling author investigates the causes of the twentieth centurys deadliest race riot and how its legacy has scarred and shaped a community over the past eight decades on a warm night in may 1921 thousands of whites many deputized by the local police swarmed through the greenwood section of tulsa oklahoma killing scores of blacks