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...history of race relations in America, there are quite a few blank spaces. Here are two books determined to fill them in. Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy, by James S. Hirsch (Houghton Mifflin; 358 pages; $25), is a quietly devastating account of Tulsa's two-day convulsion of blood and of the struggle years later to return the riot to living memory through a commission of inquiry. Philip Dray's At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (Random House; 528 pages; $35) is a powerful history of a practice so common...
...potential lynching that led to the Tulsa upheaval, in which Greenwood, the city's black neighborhood, was burned to the ground by whites. As author Hirsch points out, that murderous episode was not so much a riot as a racial pogrom--"the liquidation of virtually an entire black community and the institutions that held it together." It started with a white woman charging assault against a shoeshine man who had been alone with her in a department-store elevator. She later withdrew the charge, but not before a mob of whites had gathered outside the jailhouse where...
...Police and state-militia documents disappeared. Tulsa went back to being a city so segregated that for years it used paychecks of different colors for its white and black teachers. In the 1990s a few determined Tulsans, both black and white, succeeded in creating a state-appointed "truth commission." Hirsch, a onetime reporter for the New York Times who interviewed more than 100 people for this book, tells that part of the story with quiet dispassion...
...provide reparations to a group of elderly black survivors, a redress that had set off years of controversy. (Each of them received instead a gold-plated medal with the state seal.) The archives of the Tulsa Tribune are still incomplete. But thanks to the commission--and Hirsch's book--the crimes that were covered up are now back in the collective memory...
...stock, up 85% since 1983, and dinner-table drone about performance falls on little ears as well as big. With such incentives, grade-schoolers leap naturally from this-little-piggie-went-to-market to this-little-kiddie-plays-the-market. "This has become a national pastime," says Yale Hirsch, a stock-market historian and publisher of Stock Trader's Almanac. "What's the difference between this and baseball...