Alfred Brophy

Broschiertes Buch

Reconstructing the Dreamland Updated Edition

The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation

Beschreibung

The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was America's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. In this book, Alfred L. Brophy draws on his own extensive research into contemporary accounts and court documents to chronicle this devastating riot, showing how and why the rule of law quickly eroded.

Autor

Alfred L. Brophy is the former D. Paul Jones, Jr. & Charlene Jones Chairholder of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. He is the author of University, Court, and Slave: Proslavery Thoughts in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War (OUP, 2016) and Reparations: Pro and Con (OUP, 2006), among other books. He contributed to the report to the Tulsa Race Riot Commission, a body created by the Oklahoma Legislature to investigate the riot and make recommendations for reparations. Brophy has appeared on CNN's News Night with Aaron Brown, NBC Nightly News, NPR's "Fresh Air," the "Tavis Smiley Show," and "Talk of the Nation," and has been quoted in such newspapers as the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Washington Post.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780197607664
• ISBN-10: 0197607667
• Artikelnr.: 68211897