{"product_id":"the-ground-breaking","title":"The Ground Breaking","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e2021 National Book Award Longlist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e2022 Carnegie Medal Nonfiction Longlist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e “11 New Books We Recommend This Week” | One of Oprah Daily's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This May\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e | One of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Oklahoman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e15 Books to Help You Learn About the Tulsa Race Massacre as the 100-Year Anniversary Approaches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e |A \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Week \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ebook of the week\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs seen in documentaries on the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHistory Channel, CNN, and Lebron James’s SpringHill Productions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd then they were gone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore 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.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOver 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA riveting and essential new book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Ground Breaking\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e not only tells the long-suppressed story of the notorious Tulsa race massacre. It also unearths the lost history of how the massacre was covered up, and of the courageous individuals who fought to keep the story alive. Most important, it recounts the ongoing archaeological saga and the search for the unmarked graves of the victims of the massacre, and of the fight to win restitution for the survivors and their families.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBoth a forgotten chronicle from the nation’s past and a story ripped from today’s headlines, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Ground Breaking \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a page-turning reflection on how we, as Americans, must wrestle with the parts of our history that have been buried for far too long.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Non-Fiction","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44699497758932,"sku":"","price":31.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/FullSizeRender_5409673e-ac60-4f64-bb33-52a3b74abf6f.jpg?v=1712481117","url":"https:\/\/bluebooks.ae\/products\/the-ground-breaking","provider":"Blue Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}