"Spurred by word that a young Black man was about to be lynched for stepping on a white woman's foot, a three-day riot erupted that saw the death of hundreds of Black Oklahomans and the destruction of the Greenwood district, a prosperous, primarily Black area known nationally as Black Wall Street. ... Parrish documents the magnitude of the loss of human life and property at the hands of white vigilantes. ... Although the story is a hundred years old, elements of its racial injustices are still being replayed in the streets of America today."--Provided by publisher.
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