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When oral historian Emma Williams returns to Tulsa to care for her dying grandmother she takes a job teaching high school social studies. She and her students find themselves caught up in a quest to uncover the long-buried secret of the greatest race riot in American history the 1921 attack on Greenwood a black town so prosperous it was called the Black Wall Street. Thirty-six square blocks of Greenwood were burned to the ground by a mob of 10000 whites with air and military support and between 300 and 600 blacks were killed. Emma and her students publish their findings and inspire a state legislative commission to uncover the facts. In the process she finds herself under attack and discovers a dark family secret.