The Ground Breaking

The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City's Search for Justice

Author  Scott Ellsworth
The Ground Breaking

Housatonic Book Award Winner

Longlisted for the National Book Award and Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction

Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and Stowe Prize

One of The New York Times' “11 New Books We Recommend This Week” | One of Oprah Daily's “20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This May” | One of The Oklahoman's15 Books to Help You Learn About the Tulsa Race Massacre as the 100-Year Anniversary Approaches” |A The Week book of the week

As seen in documentaries on the History Channel, CNN, and Lebron James’s SpringHill Productions

And then they were gone.


More than one thousand homes and businesses. Restaurants and movie theaters, churches and doctors’ offices, a hospital, a public library,…