Reddit mentions of The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

Thanks! I just bought it. Here's an Amazon link if anyone else wants to, it's $8 on Kindle.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00DK40HR4/ref=mp_s_a_1_8?qid=1450453539&sr=1-8&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=The+burning

There was no slavery in the US in the early 20th century.

Read this book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DK40HR4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

The post-reconstruction US wasn't too bad for black folks. America was rebuilt. Remade. African Americans had a huge hand in that. For the first time in history, they owned a piece of it. Built their own homes and started their own businesses. Folks who could probably still remember a time when they weren't allowed to learn how to read were able to build schools and educate their children. It was far from perfect. It was good though.

The Civil Rights Movement was a wonderful thing. I would have supported whole-heartedly, but I think the end result was detrimental to black folks. The government started social-engineering and moving people into huge housing projects in the inner-city. Essentially took a proud and self-sustaining people and made them dependent upon the government.

You can do your own digging and form your own opinions, of course. What is taught in schools and propagated by the media is rarely the whole story. Or the truth, for that matter.