Magic City

<p><strong>A compelling page-turner that will keep readers hoping against hope that everything will somehow magically turn out for the best. -- <em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution</em></strong></p><p><strong>With a new Afterword from the author reflecting on the 100th anniversary of one of the most heinous tragedies in American history--the 1921 burning of Greenwood an affluent black section of Tulsa Oklahoma known as the Negro Wall Street--Jewell Parker Rhodes' powerful and</strong><strong> unforgettable novel of racism vigilantism and injustice weaves history mysticism and murder into a harrowing tale of dreams and violence gone awry.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong>Tulsa Oklahoma 1921. A white woman and a black man are alone in an elevator. Suddenly the woman screams the man flees and the chase to capture and lynch him begins.<br/></p><p>When Joe Samuels a young Black man with dreams of becoming the next Houdini is accused of rape he must perform his greatest escape by eluding a bloodthirsty mob. </p><p>Meanwhile Mary Keane the white motherless daughter of a farmer who wants to marry her off to the farmhand who viciously raped her must find the courage to help exonerate the man she accused with her panicked cry.</p><p><em>Magic City</em> evokes one of the darkest chapters of twentieth century Jim Crow America painting an intimate portrait of the heroic but doomed stand that pitted the National Guard against a small band of black men determined to defend the prosperous town they had built.</p>