I recommend "Riot and Remembrance" by Wall Street Journal reporter James Hirsch. It's about the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and its implications in Tulsa today. I grew up in Tulsa, went to school a few blocks down from Greenwood Avenue (George Washington Carver Middle School), and always peripherally knew the horrible history of Greenwood, but obviously not at the depth of Hirsch's book.
While not on the level of race riots and Jim Crow laws, its relevance to my work today in Minneapolis was strikingly eerie, as I see and work with the legacy of Jim Crow, discrimination, and especially how race affects what is believed and what is thought to be the truth. I'll say again that race relations remains the biggest and largely unaddressed issue today in this city, and reading Riot and Remembrance while sifting through the data and conclusions of the African American Men Project was telling. Gregory Luce Project 504/Minneapolis (North Phillips) _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
