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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 historyMore 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 U.S. history. Young focuses on unearthing the narrative surrounding previously all-Black Greenwood district while challenging an apocryphal narrative that includes so-called Black Wall Street, Booker T.
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RJ Young is an award-winning journalist. His work has appeared in Grantland, Reuters, and USA Today. He is a graduate of the Sports Journalism Institute and received a 2013 Diversity Fellowship from Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. He was a finalist in the sports reporting category in the 2014 Great Plains Journalism Awards. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Tulsa and a master's degree from the University of Oklahoma. He is a Ph.D candidate at Oklahoma State University.
