Leaving Tulsa

Leaving Tulsa PDF Author: Jennifer Elise Foerster
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816522367
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 89

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Leaving Tulsa, a book of road elegies and laments, travels from Oklahoma to the edges of the American continent through landscapes at once stark and lush, ancient and apocalyptic. Each poem gives the collection a rich lyrical-dramatic texture. Ultimately, these brave and luminous poems engage and shatter the boundaries of time, self, and continent.

Leaving Tulsa

Leaving Tulsa PDF Author: Jennifer Elise Foerster
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816522367
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 89

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Book Description
Leaving Tulsa, a book of road elegies and laments, travels from Oklahoma to the edges of the American continent through landscapes at once stark and lush, ancient and apocalyptic. Each poem gives the collection a rich lyrical-dramatic texture. Ultimately, these brave and luminous poems engage and shatter the boundaries of time, self, and continent.

Riot and Remembrance

Riot and Remembrance PDF Author: James S. Hirsch
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618340767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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"A buried part of history comes to light in this informative account of the Black Wall Street Massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921"--

Hearings

Hearings PDF Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1554

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Interstate Commerce Commission Reports

Interstate Commerce Commission Reports PDF Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Carriers
Languages : en
Pages : 962

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Bright Raft in the Afterweather

Bright Raft in the Afterweather PDF Author: Jennifer Elise Foerster
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 081653733X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 89

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A lyrical narrative of remembrance, hope, and Earth's resilience--Provided by publisher.

Sheet Metal Workers Journal

Sheet Metal Workers Journal PDF Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 1170

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Route 66

Route 66 PDF Author: Michael Wallis
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312082851
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Tells the story of the legendary road, Route 66, begun in the early 1920s that covered 2400 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles.

The Blacksmiths Journal

The Blacksmiths Journal PDF Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Blacksmiths
Languages : en
Pages : 1258

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Crazy for Trying

Crazy for Trying PDF Author: Joni Rodgers
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
ISBN: 9781878448927
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Crazy for Trying is a funny and sexy novel about a love so unlikely that it can only laugh at itself.

Built from the Fire

Built from the Fire PDF Author: Victor Luckerson
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0593134397
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 689

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A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black Wall Street,” that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrification “Ambitious . . . absorbing . . . By the end of Luckerson’s outstanding book, the idea of building something new from the ashes of what has been destroyed becomes comprehensible, even hopeful.”—Marcia Chatelain, The New York Times WINNER: The Dayton Literary Peace Prize; The MAAH Stone Book Award; The SABEW Best in Business Book Award; The Lillian Smith Book Award; The Oklahoma Historical Society’s E. E. Dale Award FINALIST: The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to the Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his family joined a community soon to become the center of black life in the West. But just a few years later, on May 31, 1921, the teenaged Ed hid in a bathtub as a white mob descended on his neighborhood, laying waste to thirty-five blocks and murdering as many as three hundred people in one of the worst acts of racist violence in U.S. history. The Goodwins and their neighbors soon rebuilt the district into “a Mecca,” in Ed’s words, where nightlife thrived and small businesses flourished. Ed bought a newspaper to chronicle Greenwood’s resurgence and battles against white bigotry, and his son Jim, an attorney, embodied the family’s hopes for the civil rights movement. But by the 1970s urban renewal policies had nearly emptied the neighborhood. Today the newspaper remains, and Ed’s granddaughter Regina represents the neighborhood in the Oklahoma state legislature, working alongside a new generation of local activists to revive it once again. In Built from the Fire, journalist Victor Luckerson tells the true story behind a potent national symbol of success and solidarity and weaves an epic tale about a neighborhood that refused, more than once, to be erased.