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Red Summer - The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Tom McAuliffe
Published: Sep 29 2025
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The summer air was heavy with promise in Greenwood, the thriving Black neighborhood the world called 'Black Wall Street'. Jazz spilled from the clubs, children darted through the streets with penny candy, and barbershops buzzed with talk of a brighter future for black WW l vets returning from defending America. For a moment, it felt like nothing could touch them. But one accusation lit the match.
On a hot night in 1921, a young Black man was accused of assaulting a white girl in an elevator. Within hours, the whispers grew into shouts, and the shouts became gunfire. The mob came with rifles, torches, and even airplanes circling above. Families fled as their homes burned. Fathers stood in the doorways of shops they had built with their bare hands, only to watch them collapse into ash.
Red Summer - The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 is not a cold retelling of dates and numbers. It is a story told through human eyes, through the voices of those who lived and died in those terrible days. It is memory stitched into narrative - a blend of truth and story that puts you on the ground when the first shot rang out, and keeps you there as the fires consumed a community.
Award-winning Author Tom McAuliffe gives voice to the silenced and helps restore the heartbeat of Greenwood. This is more than history. It is a riveting semi-fictional journey into one of America's darkest hours, told so that we will never forget.
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