Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2024-07-27
Books mentioned on Selects: The Tulsa 'Race Riots'
In reality, the Tulsa "race riots" of 1921 was more like a massacre. Yet it was almost lost to history until 1997, and still not widely known outside of Oklahoma until HBO's The Watchmen put it on the cultural map.
Josh Clark discussed The Burning by Tim Madigan.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Burning
The Burning by Tim Madigan is a powerful and heavily researched non-fiction work detailing the horrific events of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre.
Discussed“and some of the research he got was from the book The Burning colon Massacre destruction and the Tulsa Race ride of 1921 by Tim Madigan”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing To Kill a Mockingbird
“Which I thought for sure Sheriff McCulla was going to do, but apparently McCulla was intent on kind of going by the book! He followed the Hectate school of sheriffing! I don't even know what that from—uh, from To Kill a Mockingbird!”