Magic City Paperback - 1998
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Inspired by real events--the 1921 razing of the black section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, after a black man was falsely accused of raping a white woman--this atmospheric, critically acclaimed novel of an American travesty reflects the powerful core of bigotry that still gnaws at our nation's heart. MAGIC CITY is an unforgettable story of two people divided by race, but forever joined by fate.
First line
Joe Samuels had decided to quit dreaming.
From the rear cover
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921. A white woman and a black man are alone in an elevator. Suddenly, the woman screams, the man runs out, and the chase to capture and lynch him begins.
When Joe, a young man trying to be the next Houdini, is accused of rape, he must perform his greatest escape by eluding a bloodthirsty lynch mob. And Mary, the motherless daughter of a farmer who tries to marry her off to the farmhand who viciously raped her, must find the courage to help exonerate the man she had accused with her panicked cry. Based on true events, Magic City is a portrait of an era, climaxing in the heroic but doomed stand that pitted the National Guard against a small band of black men determined to defend the town they had built into the Negro Wall Street.
Named by the Chicago Tribune as a Favorite Book of 1997
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- Title Magic City
- Author Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Harperperennial
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher PerfectBound
- Date 1998-06-23
- ISBN 9780060929077 / 0060929073
- Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.71 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.80 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, African American men - Oklahoma - Tulsa
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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