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Book Review

Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation. By Alfred L. Brophy. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xx, 187 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-19-514685-9.)
The subtitle of this addition to the growing literature on the Tulsa riot indicates its purpose. While researching for the Tulsa Riot Commission, Alfred L. Brophy uncovered newspaper stories that reveal "an alternative account of the riot's origins in the conflicting attitudes of blacks and whites toward law" (p. xx). He also employed court testimonies, notably before the Oklahoma Supreme Court in Redfearn v. American Central Insurance Co. (1926), that evinced official actions justifying reparations for black victims. The key to understanding both the riot's origins and the reparations case, he contends, is "the rule of law," that is, the racially impartial enforcement of legal principle by government officials. . . .
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