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100 years later, Greenwood survivor publishes book on Tulsa massacre

Mary Parrish wrote the first book about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre but it is only being published for mass audience.

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They didn t talk about it : how a historian helped Tulsa confront the horror of its past

‘They didn’t talk about it’: how a historian helped Tulsa confront the horror of its past David Smith © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Universal History Archive/Getty Images There was no memorial to it in town. Teachers made no mention of it, not even during a half-semester devoted to local history. The white schoolboy Scott Ellsworth of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was left to wonder what the city’s darkest secret could be. “As a 10- and 11-year-old, I would occasionally hear older adults, neighbours, talking about what we then called ‘the riot’ and they would always lower their voices or change the subject,” recalls Ellsworth, now 67. “I started to catch wind of these stories about bodies floating down the Arkansas River, machine guns on the roofs of town, but you couldn’t really find out anything about it.”

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Greenwood author s first-person history of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre published 100 years later

Mary Parrish wrote the first book about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre but it is only being published for mass audience.

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Code Switch s Recommended Reads About The Tulsa Massacre

Here's the books and articles about the 1921 Tulsa massacre that we recommend for a deeper dive into the events from the day.

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Tulsa race massacre gets wide media coverage on 100th anniversary

As a tragic centennial arrives, filmmakers and writers are telling the story of mob violence inflicted on a thriving Black community in Tulsa.

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