| Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre Contributor(s): Ball, Alverne (Author), Robinson, Stacey (Illustrator), Anderson, Reynaldo (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 141975517X ISBN-13: 9781419755170 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams OUR PRICE: $13.59 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Comics & Graphic Novels | Nonfiction - Biography & Memoir - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) - History | African American |
| Dewey: 976.686 |
| LCCN: 2020944172 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (0.70 lbs) 64 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: One hundred years after the Tulsa Race Massacre, Across the Tracks is a celebration and memorial of Greenwood, Oklahoma 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 the businesses and townsfolk who flourished in this unprecedented time of prosperity for Black Americans. We learn about Greenwood and why it is essential to remember the great achievements of the community as well as the tragedy which nearly erased it. However, Ball is careful to recount the eventual recovery of Greenwood. With additional supplementary materials including a detailed preface, timeline, and historical essay, Across the Tracks offers a thorough examination of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Black Wall Street. |