and destroyed Tulsa’s prosperous Black neighborhood ofGreenwood, known as “Black Wall Street.” More than 1,400 homes and businesses were burned, and nearly 10,000 people were left homeless. Despite its severity and destructiveness, the Tulsa race massacre was barely mentioned in history books ...
There were many eclipses of both the sun and the moon forecast and there were already rumours circulating about supernatural events – deformed children in France; bloody rain falling from the sky in Sweden; black magic in Germany causing torrential floods Blurb: In this third book in the ...
describes the complete destruction of the Black neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma by the white citizens of Tulsa. The community would later be known as “Black Wall Street” due to it’s prosperity. The Massacre marks it’s 100th anniversary May 31 – June 1, 2021. ...
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Who is this novel about? If you’re of a certain age, you probably remember the horror of seeing pictures of the 900 plus dead bodies of Peoples Temple church members, the majority of them African American, in Jonestown, Guyana in 1978. You may also know that the Jonestown massacre was ...
depicts Montague's childhood as a Black suburban kid who had to grow up in a post-9/11 world where casual racism and prejudice from her peers were the new norm. Liz also recognized early she was dyslexic and used that to reimagine her career. We spoke with Montague about her new book...
The story of the Tulsa Race Massacre is told through the eyes of a little girl trying to survive with her family. The Greenwood district was called the Black Wall Street. After a young Black man was accused of assaulting a white woman, simmering racial tensions boiled over and mobs of whit...
Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie–scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to—a group of similar survivors known in the press as the ...