Reconstructing the Dream Land
Primary Source Analysis: Reconstructing the Dream Land: The Tulsa Race Riots of 1921—Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation Author: Alfred L. ... Karl Johnson February 26, 2004 Primary Source Analysis: Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921-Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation Alfred Brophy is currently a professor of law at the University of Alabama. ... In Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921—Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation, Brophy examines the devastating events that occurred during the spring of 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ... Brophy’s main objective in Reconstructing the Dreamland is to make the reader aware of the hardships and injustices in which African Americans were faced with during this time period in Tulsa, as well as the rest of the nation. ... The major primary sources Brophy used in Reconstructing the Dreamland are several important newspapers that depicted the riot from its beginning to its end, as well as from months leading up to the riot.