Racial tensions in Tulsa rapidly escalated and eventually culminated in the Tulsa Massacre that occurred in Oklahoma in 1921. In his book “Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921”, Scott Ellsworth chronicles the events that led up to the race riots in Tulsa as well as the injustices people of color faced on the basis of their race by prejudicial groups that refused to tolerate people who were different than them. The African American population was targeted and white aggressors in particular incited violence against them in a ruthless fashion, and this sent shockwaves into the African American community. They attempted to stand their ground and defend themselves but were often outnumbered and lynched mercilessly. Something important to note that Ellsworth touches in his book “Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921” is that the Tulsa Massacre was not a random or isolated incident. He writes: “The Tulsa race riot [was] not a lone aberration jutting out of a saner, calmer past” ( Ellsworth 17). Rather, racial intolerance had been brewing in the United States long before the race riots that took place in Tulsa broke out but they stood out due to the particularly virulent nature of the attacks. In the direct aftermath of the massacre, black people were forced into internment camps and could only be released if a white person vouched for them. Furthermore, they had to carry identification cards on them in public unless they wanted to go back into the camps and were not allowed to purchase firearms to protect themselves. The blatant intolerance displayed towards African-Americans during this time was displayed in full force when the Tulsa Massacre occurred. The fact that a black person could have been the target of lynching merely because they were the relative of someone who had previously been lynched is angering. Additionally, recent findings from the Washington Post suggest the possibility of mass graves that may contain the bodies of slain African Americans in Tulsa, and the city is determined to ascertain the truth.