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Unspeakable : the Tulsa Race Massacre / Carole Boston Weatherford ; [illustrated by] Floyd Cooper.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1541581202
  • 9781541581203
Other title:
  • Tulsa Race Massacre
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Unspeakable.LOC classification:
  • F704.T92 W43 2021
Online resources: Awards:
  • Coretta Scott King Illustrator Book Award, Winner, 2022.
  • Coretta Scott King Author Book Award, Winner, 2022.
  • Caldecot Medal, Honor, 2022.
  • Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, Honor, 2022.
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"--Summary: 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.
List(s) this item appears in: Coretta Scott King Book Award | Caldecott Medal
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Juvenile Collection Juvenile Collection Albright College Library CCM--Ask at Reference Desk Children's collection J 976.6 W362u 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31856002514006
Total holds: 0

"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 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.

Ages 8-12 Carolrhoda Books.

Grades 4-6 Carolrhoda Books.

1100L Lexile

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Book Award, Winner, 2022.

Coretta Scott King Author Book Award, Winner, 2022.

Caldecot Medal, Honor, 2022.

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, Honor, 2022.

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