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This project is inspired by several documentaries I have seen in the last four years or so. But seeing a young lady read the book today, "pushed me over the edge!"
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1290396.The_Burning
The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Tim Madigan.
On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. 34 square blocks of Tulsa's Greenwood community, known then as the Negro Wall Street of America, were reduced to smoldering rubble.
And now, 80 years later, the death toll of what is known as the Tulsa Race Riot is more difficult to pinpoint. Conservative estimates put the number of dead at about 100 (75% of the victims are believed to have been black), but the actual number of casualties could be triple that. The Tulsa Race Riot Commission, formed two years ago to determine exactly what happened, has recommended that restitution to the historic Greenwood Community would be good public policy and do much to repair the emotional as well as physical scars of this most terrible incident in our shared past.
With chilling details, humanity, and the narrative thrust of compelling fiction, The Burning will recreate the town of Greenwood at the height of its prosperity, explore the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust between its black residents and neighboring Tulsa's white population, narrate events leading up to and including Greenwood's annihilation, and document the subsequent silence that surrounded the tragedy.
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List of Known Dead and Wounded
Abernathy, J. L. Black Wounded
Adams, Ed Black Dead 32 b. abt 1889
Alexander, Greg Black Dead 35 b. abt 1886.
Arnley, Cal Black Wounded
Arnold, Vance Black Wounded
Austin, Earnest White Dead 39
Austin, Edward White Wounded 38
Baker, F.M White Dead 38
Baker, Johnny Black Wounded 28
Barker, Harry Black Dead 37?
Barren, Howard Black Wounded
Barrens, Howard Black Dead 19 B. about 1902.
Barry, James Black Wounded
Baskin, Ed Black Wounded
Belshmer, E.F White Wounded
Bentley, William Black Wounded
Berrell, John White Dead 85 b. abt 1836
Brown. Willie Black Wounded
Bryant, Tom Black Missing resumed dead, or wounded
Carr, Ruth Black Wounded
Carter, Charles Wounded
Chapple, P. A. Black Wounded
Cline, Homer White Dead 17
Collins, J. Wounded or died?
Crouch, Garland White Wounded
Curry, F. L. White Wounded
Curry, H. Lewis White Wounded 28
Cytron, J. White Wounded
Daggs, George Walter White Dead 27, 35 In Trib. b. abt 1894
Danney, George L. Black Wounded
Davis, Dan Black Wounded
Diamond, Carrie Black Killed
Dow, A.N. White Wounded
Elmer, Robert White Wounded
Epps, William Black Wounded
Everett, Ruben or R. T Black Dead?
Fisher, Lee White Wounded 21
Foster, Lonnie Black Wounded
Gamble, Henry Wounded
Gamble, V.M. White Wounded
Gilliland, Norman White Wounded
Gilmore, Ila White Wounded
Glaze, Miranda Black Wounded
Greeson, James White Dead 28-32
Griffin, Clarence Black Wounded
Gurner, William Black Wounded
Hartshone, E. D White Wounded
Hastings, W.R. SGT White Wounded
Hawkins, George Black Dead 78
Hawkinson, Robert C White Dead 22
Hileam, E.R. White Wounded
Hileman, Earl R. White Wounded
Hill, Clarence White Dead
Hode, J.S. Black Wounded
Howard, Edward G. Black Dead
Hudson, Billy Black Dead
Ingram, Ed Black Wounded
Jackson, Andrew C. Black Dead
Jackson, S. Black Wounded
Janes, Arthur White Dead 31
Jeffery, George (or Jefferies) Black Dead 35
Jenkins, M.J. White Wounded
Johnson, Charles Black Wounded
Johnson, H. Black Wounded
Johnson, ? Black Dead?
Johnson, Marie Black Wounded
Joiner, G. F. White Wounded
Jones, Arthur Black Wounded
Knox, Commodore Black Wounded
Lane, Oliver Black Wounded
Lasley, Leroy Black Wounded
Lee, J. White Wounded
Lewis, G. W. Black Wounded
Lewis, Tony Black Wounded
Linsdley, ? Black Wounded
Lockard, Ed Black Dead 33
Logsdon, K.G. White Wounded
Lotspeich, Charles (Carl) D. White Dead 22
Masek, A.E. White Wounded
Maynor, Willis Black Wounded
McDonald, H. D. White Wounded
Miller, Curd White Wounded 17
Miller, Frank Wounded
Miller, Jake Wounded
Miller, Joe Black Dead
Moore, Ruth Black Wounded
Moore, Will Black Wounded
Morrison, ?? Black? Dead Mother of Arthur Morrison, age 12.
Neel, Andrew Black Wounded
Nelson, Tom Black Wounded
Oliver, Ruth Black Wounded
Osborne, Robert L.
Owens, Ross G. White Wounded
Palmer, Robert White Wounded 23
Parts, James White Wounded See Paris, James. Parts may well be a typo or a misreading
Paris, James White Killed
Perry, A. White Wounded
Pierce, S. H Black Dead
Prunkard, G. T. White Wounded 34
Ree, Sam Black Dead
Renkin, Latha Black Wounded
Rhodes, Homer White Wounded
Rivers, Bob Black Wounded
Roberts, Brooks Black De.ad
Roberts, Harry White Dead 27? b. abt 1894.
Robinson, Lane Black Wounded
Sandridge, M.M. Black Dead
Seltzer, R. N. White Wounded
Shelton, Lewis Black Dead 77 b. 14 Oct 1844
Sherrick, Otto White Wounded
Sherrill, T.J. White Dead 51
Shields, Lewis White Wounded
Shigley, Mrs M.R. White Wounded
Shumate, Cleo White Dead 24
Slinkard, L. C/Grocer White Wounded 25
Smith, Florida Black Wounded
Smith, Franklin T. Black Wounded
Sterling, A.T. White Wounded
Stevenson, Alex Black Wounded
Stick, A.B./G.B. White Wounded
Switzgood, Gordon/George White Wounded ?
Talbot, ? Black Dead ??? Male – Probably Nelson Talbot.
Talbot, ? Black Dead ??? Female – probably Eliza Talbot
Taliafirio, Lily Black Wounded
Thomas, C.C. White Wounded
Turner, William Black Dead or Wounded 35
Tyson, Sam Black Wounded 22
Vickers, E.F./C.F. White Wounded
Walker, Cualey Black Dead
Walker, Elsie Black? Wounded 80
Walker, Henry Black Dead
Washington, L. Black Wounded
Weaver, G.E.. White Dead 24
Wheeler, E. L White Wounded
Wheeler, John Black Dead
White, George N White Wounded
Whitty, Celia Black Wounded
Williams, Porter Black Wounded
Wilson, J.H. White Dead 74
believe this may be Thomas Henry Wilson b. Holland/Netherlands, 1845, d.31 May 1921. Bur. Rose Hill Cem.
Wissenger, J.E. White Wounded
Withrow, Ira James -or- Withrow, Samuel J White Dead 19
Woffard, Shirley Black Wounded
Woodard, Ora Black Wounded