Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd
Cooper provide a powerful look at the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the
worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history. The book
traces the history of African Americans in Tulsa's Greenwood district
and chronicles the devastation that occurred in 1921 when a white mob
attacked the Black community.
News of what
happened was largely suppressed, and no official investigation
occurred for seventy-five years. This picture book sensitively
introduces young readers to this tragedy and concludes with a call
for a better future.
