The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921:
Reconstructing the Dreamland:
Contemplating Civil Rights Actions and Reparations for the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
Preliminary draft of report to Tulsa Race Riot Commission. Presented in Tulsa on February
4, 2000.Adobe Acrobat is required to read this article. Click
hereto download the Adobe
Acrobat Reader.
Listen to National Public Radio's "Fresh Air" broadcast on the Tulsa Riot: http://whyy.org/cgi-bin/FAshowretrieve.cgi?2821
Brief of Plaintiff, Redfearn v.
American Cent. Ins. Co., 116 Okla. 137 (Sup. Ct. 1926) (No. 15,851).
Brief of
Defendant, Redfearn v.
American Cent. Ins. Co., 116 Okla. 137 (Sup. Ct. 1926) (No. 15,851).(Brief is in Adobe Acrobat format; large file)
Brent
Staples, Unearthing a Riot, New York Times, December 19, 1999
Listen to jazz
music from the time.(Look for Bennie Mouton's Tulsa
Blues)
See a description of my book on the riot,which will be published by Oxford University Press later this year.
Representative Publications:
Let Us Go Back And Stand Upon the Constitution: Federal-State Relations inDred Scott v. Sandford, 90 COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW192-225 (January 1990).
"For the Preservation of the King's Peace and Justice": Community and English Law in Sussex County, Pennsylvania, 1682-1696,40 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY167-212 (April 1996).
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Department of Justice: Antitrust Case Filings
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National Park Service: Comments on the Old Spanish Trail
NHTSA's Interpretation Files Search
United States Department of Agriculture AMS. National Organic Program
United States Food and Drug Administration. Current FDA Guidance Documents.
United States Supreme Court Database
Law and Legal History: Constitutional Classics
Early American Fiction (Electronic Text)
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
The German-American Tradition: Its History and Literature
Graduate Program in the History of American Civilization, Harvard UniversityHarriet Beecher Stowe Bibliography
Harvard's Online Catalog (Hollis)Library of Congress: "A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation": Congressional Testimony
Metropolitan Museum of ArtModern English Text (Electronic Text)
National Archives PicturesNew York Public Library Images
Oklahoma Indian Legal Services Professor Palmer's American Legal History DocumentsProfessor Palmer's English Legal History Materials
Ralph Ellison Webliography Southern History Documents TomPaine.common sense, A Journal of Opinion1921 Tulsa Race Riot Commission
University of Pennsylvania Library
My next projects are on reparations and riots. I'm starting studies of the East St. Louis riot of 1917and the riot that chased Alfred Raiford Blount out of the Louisiana Legislature.
Alfred Raiford Blount