1921 Tulsa Race Riot Bibliography  

Items housed in OSU's Special Collections which may be of interest.

Tulsa race war, 31st May 1921 : an oral history - Kerr, S. P.

Call Number: 2006-022 T409

The Tulsa race riot - Gill, L. L.

Call Number: 2006-022 T350

Reconstructing the Dreamland : contemplating civil rights actions and reparations for the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 - Brophy, A. L.

Call Number: 2006-022 T410

1921 Tulsa race riot : historical context and consequences - American Inns of Court Foundation, Council Oak Chapter

Call Number: 2006-022 T414

Black Wallstreet: a lost dream - Wilson, J. J.

Call Number: 813 W7485b

Fiction

If we must die : a novel of Tulsa's 1921 Greenwood riot - Carr, P. M.

Call Number: 813 C312i

Fiction

 

These are works of fiction, not necessarily historically accurate.

Black Wallstreet : a lost dream - Wilson, J. J.

Call Number: 813 W7485b (Special Collections)

ISBN: 1592327001

Magic City : a novel - Rhodes, J. P.

Call Number: 813 R476m

ISBN: 0060187328

If we must die : a novel of Tulsa's 1921 Greenwood riot - Carr, P. M.

Call Number: 813 C312i

ISBN: 087565262X

 

The OSU Library has many books on the Tulsa Race Riots.

Reconstructing the dreamland: The Tulsa riot of 1921: Race, reparations, and reconciliation - Brophy, A. L.

Call Number: 976.686 B873r

ISBN: 0195146859

Death in a promised land : the Tulsa race riot of 1921 - Ellsworth, S.

Call Number: 976.686 E47d 1992

ISBN: 0807117676

They came searching: How Blacks sought the promised land in Tulsa - Gates, E. F.

Call Number: 976.6860049 G259t

ISBN: 1571681450

Riot on Greenwood: the total destruction of Black Wall Street, 1921 - Gates, E. F.

Call Number: 303.62309766 G259r

ISBN: 1571686967

Riot and remembrance : the Tulsa race war and its legacy - Hirsch, J. S.

Call Number: 976.6860049 H669r

ISBN: 0618108130

1921 Tulsa race riot and the American Red Cross, "Angels of Mercy" : compiled from the memorabilia collection of Maurice Willows, director of Red Cross relief - Hower, R.

Call Number: 976.686 H859n

ISBN: 0966582306

Black Wall Street: From riot to renaissance in Tulsa's historic Greenwood District - Johnson, H. B.

Call Number: 976.686 J67b

ISBN: 157168221X

Up from the ashes: A story about building community. - Johnson, H. B.

Call Number: j976.686 J37u (Curriculum Materials Library)

ISBN: 1571683852

The burning : massacre, destruction, and the Tulsa race riot of 1921 - Madigan, T.

Call Number: 976.686052 M182b

ISBN: 0312272839

Also available at Google Books

The Tulsa race riot of 1921: determining its causes and framing - Messer, C. M.

Call Number: Electronic Dissertation

Tulsa race riot : a report by the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot on 1921 - Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

Call Number: 976.6860049 O41t (Documents Reference)

Also available online

Race riot 1921: Events of the Tulsa disaster - Parrish, M. E.

Call Number: 976.686 P261e 1998

ISBN: 1891116029

Hush, somebody's callin' my name : a photographic essay of survival, resilience and perseverance - Thompson, D.

Call Number: 976.686 T469Zt4

ISBN: 1436373522

 

• Afro-Americans--Oklahoma--Tulsa--History

• Riots--Oklahoma--Tulsa--History--20th century

• Tulsa (Okla.)--Race relations

• Violence--Oklahoma--Tulsa--History--20th century

• African American neighborhoods--Oklahoma--Tulsa--History--20th century

• Racism--Oklahoma--Tulsa--History--20th century

• Riots--Oklahoma--Tulsa--History--20th century