Toward the end of The Ground Breaking: The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City's Search for Justice, author Scott Ellsworth correctly says that we live in the Age of Reevaluation. This is an apt term for our times. This book explores the myriad ways white Tulsans tried to forget or otherwise cover up the sacking of the black Greenwood neighborhood and the murder of hundreds of its residents. The recent drive to find mass graves in Tulsa is part of a wider trend: a revaluation of the crimes and sins of the past by white citizens of this nation against people of color. This is long overdue.
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