Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Balzer & Bray/Harperteen 20211005.Description: 216 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Age group: Early Adolescents
ISBN:
  • 9780063056664
  • 0063056666
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 976.686052 23
Contents:
May 30, 1921 -- Oklahoma! Soon be livin' in a brand-new state -- To be Black in America -- Fighting for survival -- May 31, 1921 -- Black Wall Street comes alive -- Extra! Extra! Read all about it!, or The promise of a lynching -- June 1, 1921 -- The aftermath -- The legacy of Greenwood -- Afterword.
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 Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in US history. But how did it come to pass? What exactly happened? And why are the events unknown to so many of us today?
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-214) and index.

May 30, 1921 -- Oklahoma! Soon be livin' in a brand-new state -- To be Black in America -- Fighting for survival -- May 31, 1921 -- Black Wall Street comes alive -- Extra! Extra! Read all about it!, or The promise of a lynching -- June 1, 1921 -- The aftermath -- The legacy of Greenwood -- Afterword.

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 Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in US history. But how did it come to pass? What exactly happened? And why are the events unknown to so many of us today?

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