Nafissa Thompson-Spires delivers a literary masterpiece with The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford. Set post-Tulsa Race Massacre, this dark whodunit brilliantly tackles power, memory, and narrative. #review #TulsaRaceMassacre #NafissaThompsonSpires #power #memory #narrative #MustRead
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@moved2italy.bsky.social![The massacre began during Memorial Day weekend after 19-year-old Dick Rowland, a black shoeshiner, was accused of assaulting Sarah Page, a white 21-year-old elevator operator in the nearby Drexel Building.[25] He was arrested and rumors spread that he was to be lynched. Several hundred white residents assembled outside the courthouse, appearing to have the makings of a lynch mob. A group of approximately 50–60 black men, armed with rifles and shotguns, arrived at the jail to support the sheriff and his deputies in defending Rowland from the mob. Having seen the armed black men, some of the whites who had been at the courthouse went home for their own guns. There are conflicting reports about the exact time and nature of the incident, or incidents, that immediately precipitated the massacre.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:eawzglklesn5krtzphf3vcwk/bafkreibvsjsqyviw7cqqd5dj7womh25gnohiqlxhcoted65vd332y7u5vm@jpeg)