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Girls surviveSmith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMIRhodes, Jewell Parker
Summary: Joe Samuels, a young Black man trying to escape being lynched for a rape he did not commit, and Mary Keane, a lonely young white woman fighting to exonerate Joe, embark on individual odysseys of self-discovery, in a story inspired by the 1921 burning of Greenwood, an affluent Black section of Tulsa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2021