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Smith, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMI

Beard, Hilary

Summary: A young adult adaptation of Tim Madigan's The Burning, which discusses the circumstances of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.6 BEA

Laughlin, Kara L.

Summary: "A brief introduction into the violent Tulsa Race Massacre that occurred on May 31-June 1 1921. Additional features include detailed captions and sidebars, critical-thinking questions, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research." -- Amazon.com

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.6 LAU

Gayle, Caleb

Summary: "Before May 31, 1921, the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a thriving neighborhood of 10,000 Black residents. There, Black families found success and community. They ran their own businesses, including barbershops, clothing stores, jewelers, restaurants, movie theaters, and more. There also were Black doctors, dentists, and lawyers to serve the neighborhood. Then, in one weekend, all...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.896 GAY

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JT Blk His What Gayle

Weatherford, Carole Boston

Summary: "Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.6 WEA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.6 WEA

Winn, Kevin P.

Summary: "The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Tulsa Race Riots and the Red Summer of 1919 explores the events in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Kelisa Wing to reach children of all races and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 WIN

Pink, Randi

Summary: Randi Pink's The Angel of Greenwood is a historical YA novel that takes place during the Greenwood Massacre of 1921, in an area of Tulsa, OK, known as the "Black Wall Street." "Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. A passionate follower of W.E.B. Du Bois, he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PIN

Rhodes, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RHO

Young, R. J.

Summary: "With journalistic skill, heart, and hope, Requiem for the Massacre reckons with the racial tension in Tulsa, Oklahoma one hundred years after the most infamous act of racial violence in American history"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YOUNG, R.J. YOU

Ellsworth, Scott

Summary: "The definitive, newsbreaking account of the ongoing investigation into the Tulsa race massacre In the late spring of 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma, erupted into the worst single incident of racial violence in American history. Over the course of sixteen hours, mobs of white men and women looted and burned to the ground a prosperous African American community, known today as Black Wall Street. More...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 ELL

Summary: One hundred years after the destruction of the Black-owned Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history, residents and descendants examine the history of the 1921 tragedy and its aftermath. Through the historical lens of white violence and Black resistance, the film explores vital issues of atonement, reconciliation and reparation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TUL

Ball, Alverne

Summary: "In Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts MEGASCOPE 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.68 BAL

Luckerson, Victor

Summary: "When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to Greenwood, Tulsa, his family joined a growing community on the cusp of becoming the center of Black life in the West. But, just a few years later, on May 31, 1921, the teenaged Ed hid in a bathtub as a white mob descended on his neighborhood. They laid waste to 35 blocks and murdering as many as 300 people. The Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the worst...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.6 LUC

Colbert, Brandy

Summary: "In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 976.6 COL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 976.6 COL

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