Ebook {Epub PDF} Magic City by Jewell Parker Rhodes

In the late s, Jewell Parker Rhoades took what little was known about the massacre and created the novel Magic City. Briefly, the massacre occurred when a Black young man was accused of assaulting a white female elevator operator; she refused to testify and charges against the young man were dropped, but only after an entire Black community was decimated by angry, racist white Tulsans/5(61). About Jewell. Dr. Jewell Parker Rhodes is the author of six adult novels: Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass’ Women, Season, Moon, and Hurricane, as well as the memoir Porch Stories: A Grandmother’s Guide to Happiness, and two writing guides: Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors and The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Non-Fiction.  · Magic City, published in , is a heart-wrenching imagining of those horrible events. The massacre is believed to have started after a black man, Dick Rowland was accused of assaulting Sarah Page, a white female elevator operator. As the author, Jewell /5(43).

Jewell Parker Rhodes' powerful and unforgettable novel of racism, vigilantism, and injustice, weaves history, mysticism, and murder into a harrowing tale of dreams and violence gone awry. Tulsa, Oklahoma, A white woman and a black man are alone in an elevator. Dr. Jewell Parker Rhodes is the author of six adult novels: Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass' Women, Season, Moon, and Hurricane, as well as the memoir Porch Stories: A Grandmother's Guide to Happiness, and two writing guides, Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors and The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Non-Fiction. Hailed as a Favorite Book by the Chicago Tribune and based on true events, Magic City wowed critics and audiences nationwide. In Tulsa, a white woman and a black man get on an elevator. The woman screams, and suddenly the man is on the streets - barely ahead of a lynch mob gathering behind him. © Jewell Parker Rhodes (P)

In the late s, Jewell Parker Rhoades took what little was known about the massacre and created the novel Magic City. Briefly, the massacre occurred when a Black young man was accused of assaulting a white female elevator operator; she refused to testify and charges against the young man were dropped, but only after an entire Black community was decimated by angry, racist white Tulsans. Dr. Jewell Parker Rhodes Jewell is the award-winning author of Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass’ Women, Season, Moon, and Hurricane. She is also the Virginia G. Piper Endowed Chair and Founding Artistic Director of Arizona State University’s Piper Center for Creative Writing, and has written many award-winning books for children. Magic City: the novel is a work of historical fiction set in 's Tulsa, OK aka "the Magic City" due to its beauty and prosperity from the booming successes of the surrounding oil fields. Life is good for Whites and even better for African Americans in the small all-black section, Deep Greenwood, where black-owned banks, businesses, churches, and schools thrive for its middle-class citizens.