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Opal's Greenwood oasis
Call Number
- JE OUR TOWN HYLT (CEN, EAS, OSH, POW, WSQ)
Publication Information
Tulsa, OK : Calliope Group, [2021]
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary
The year is 1921, and Opal Brown would like to show you around her beautiful neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Filled with busy stores and happy families, Opal also wants you to know that "everyone looks like me." In both words and illustrations, this carefully researched and historically accurate book allows children to experience the joys and success of Greenwood, one of the most prosperous Black communities of the early 20th Century, an area Booker T. Washington dubbed America's Black Wall Street. Soon after the day narrated by Opal, Greenwood would be lost in the Tulsa Race Massacre, the worst act of racial violence in American history.
Subjects
- African American girls > Juvenile fiction.
- African American neighborhoods > Oklahoma > Tulsa > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans > Oklahoma > Tulsa > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
- Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921 > Juvenile fiction.
- Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) > Juvenile fiction.
- Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.