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With journalistic skill heart and hope Requiem for the Massacre reckons with the tension in Tulsa Oklahoma one hundred years after the most infamous act of racial violence in American history

More than one hundred years ago the city of Tulsa Oklahoma perpetrated a massacre against its Black residents For generations the true story was ignored covered up and diminished by those in power and in a position to preserve the status quo Blending
memoir and immersive journalism RJ Young shows how today Tulsa combats its racist past while remaining all too tolerant of racial injustice

Requiem for the Massacre is a cultural excavation of Tulsa one hundred years after one of the worst acts of domestic terrorism in US history Young focuses on unearthing the narrative surrounding previously allBlack Greenwood District while challenging an
apocryphal narrative that includes socalled Black Wall Street Booker T Washington and Black exceptionalism Young provides a firsthand account of the centennial events commemorating Tulsas darkest day as the city attempts to reckon with its selfimage
commercialization of its atrocity and the aftermath of the massacre that shows how things have changed and how they have stayed woefully the same

As Tulsa and the United States head into the next one hundred years Youngs own reflections thread together the stories of a community and a nation trying to heal and trying to hope