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A 4 page paper which analyzes the race riot presented in Death in a Promised Land by Scott Ellsworth. No additional sources cited.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RApland.rtf
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from any one perspective. In the United States, as it relates to race issues, there are many variables and each region or community has its unique, as well as universal,
elements that come into play. This is evident in Scott Ellsworths work Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. The following paper analyzes the work, discussing
whether the riot is better understood as reflective of nationwide trends or as an isolated event. Death in a Promised Land In the beginning of Ellsworths work he
illustrates how Oklahoma was one of many states whose population "more than doubled" between 1890 and 1920, presenting the reader with the understanding that although Oklahoma was only surpassed by
Texas in the population growth, it was one of many states that experienced some powerful change, with oil part of that change (Ellsworth 8). Oil was an important, and somewhat
isolated reality, that made Tulsas story, as another noted, was "the story of oil" (Ellsworth 9). In these respects one can see that Tulsa was its own entity, its own
unique city with a unique situation. Like every town has its own history and its own problems and tensions, Tulsa was immersed in its own identity.
At the same time, in the early 20s, "opportunities for young black men in Tulsa...were severely circumscribed, regardless of education" (Ellsworth 45). Even with Tulsa possessing
some very successful black people, the truth was that blacks had as little opportunity, overall, in Tulsa as they did in the rest of the nation. For example, the author
notes that the region known as Deep Greenwood was one which served as "a favorite place for the offices of Tulsas unusually large number of black lawyers, doctors, and other
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