Unspeakable : the Tulsa Race Massacre / Carole Boston Weatherford ; Floyd Cooper.

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"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"-- On May 31 and June 1, 1921, an armed mob looted homes and businesses as Black families fled. The...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:MSU Children's & YA Literature Collection.
Main Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- (Author)
Other Authors: Cooper, Floyd (Illustrator)
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, [2021]
Series:MSU Children's & YA Literature Collection.
Subjects:
Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921 > Juvenile literature.
African Americans > Violence against > Oklahoma > Tulsa > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) > Race relations > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
Tulsa (Okla.) > Race relations > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
Informational works.
Creative nonfiction.
Picture books.
Genre:
Juvenile literature.
Informational works.
Creative nonfiction.
Picture books.
Online Access:
(Tulsa Race Massacre : newspaper complicity and coverage. Library of Congress. (May 27, 2021).) (Library of Congress)
(The Tulsa Race Massacre. Oklahoma History Center Education Department. (November 11, 2012. 27 pages).)
(Tulsa Race Riot : a report by the Oklahoma Commision to study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. (February 28, 2001. 200 pages))
Local Note:
MSU: In dust jacket.
MSU: Gift of Erik Ponder.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Variant Title:
Tulsa Race Massacre
Format: Book
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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"-- Provided by publisher.
On May 31 and June 1, 1921, an armed mob looted homes and businesses as Black families fled. The police did nothing to protect Greenwood, and as many as three hundred African Americans were killed, most buried in unmarked graves. Thousands were left homeless. No official investigation occurred until seventy-five years later. Unspeakable helps young readers understand the events of the Tulsa, Oklahoma race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history.-- adapted from jacket.
Call Number:976.68 Weatherford
NFC
F704.T92 W43 2021
Audience:
Ages 8-12 Carolrhoda Books.
Grades 4-6 Carolrhoda Books.
1100L Lexile
ISBN:1541581202
9781541581203