Across the tracks : remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre

Author

Alverne Ball

Call Numbers

• GRAPHIC NOVEL 976.686 B1871 (CEN)
• GRAPHIC NOVEL 976.686 B1871 TEEN (CEN, EAS, OSH)

Browse similar titles by call number

Publication Information

New York : Abrams ComicArts, Megascope, 2021.

Physical Description

55 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm

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 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."--Netgalley.com.

Notes

Subtitle from cover.