2021 National Book Award Longlist2022 Carnegie Medal Nonfiction LonglistOne of The New York Times' 11 New Books We Recommend This Week One of Oprah Daily's 20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This May One of The Oklahoman's 15 Books to Help You Learn About the Tulsa Race Massacre as the 100-Year Anniversary Approaches |A The Week book of the weekAs seen in documentaries on the History Channel, Cnn, and Lebron James's SpringHill ProductionsAnd then they were gone. More than one thousand homes and businesses. Restaurants and movie theaters, churches and doctors' offices, a hospital, a public library, a post office. Looted, burned, and bombed from the air. Over the course of less than twenty-four hours in the spring of 1921, Tulsa's infamous Black Wall Street was wiped off the map, and erased from the history books. Official records were disappeared, researchers were threatened, and the worst single incident of racial violence in American history was kept hidden for more than fifty years. But there were some secrets that would not die. A riveting and essential new book, The Ground Breaking not only tells the long-suppressed story of the notorious Tulsa race massacre. It also unearths the lost.