Fire in Beulah Author:Rilla Askew Althea Whiteside, an oil wildcatter's high-strung white wife, and her enigmatic black maid, Graceful, share a complex connection during the tense days of the Oklahoma Oil Rush. Their juxtaposing stories and those of others close to them -- unfold as tensions mount to a violent climax in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, during which whites burned the... more » city's prosperous black neighborhood to the ground. The riot becomes the crucible that melds and tests each of the characters in the masterful exploration of the America race story and the ties that bind us irrevocably to one another.« less
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