Join us for discussion and activities about "Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre" by Alverne Ball. Registration is required. For high schoolers.
Register online or call 918-549-7323.
"Author Alverne Ball and illustrator Stacey Robinson have crafted a love letter to Greenwood, Oklahoma. Also known as Black Wall Street, Greenwood was a community whose importance is often overshadowed by the atrocious massacre that took place there in 1921. Across the Tracks introduces the reader to the businesses and townsfolk who flourished in this unprecedented time of prosperity for Black Americans. We learn about Greenwood and why it is essential to remember the great achievements of the community as well as the tragedy which nearly erased it. However, Ball is careful to recount the eventual recovery of Greenwood. With additional supplementary materials including a detailed preface, timeline, and historical essay, Across the Tracks offers a thorough examination of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Black Wall Street." --Netgalley.com.
TAGS: | Tulsa Race Massacre | Book Review or Discussion |
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Central Library
400 Civic Center
Tulsa, OK 74103
918-549-7323
