Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre Cover:Paperback 2019 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

2019 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor Book

Computer Scientist

Look closely at these mirrors

and life and death is crossed

And her tired parents seem to only notice the “exceptional” kids in the house

Tulsa, 1921: Reporting a Massacre Cover:Paperback 2019 Boston Globe–Horn Book AwardIn 1921 Tulsas Greenwood District, known then as the nations Black Wall Street, was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the United States. But on May 31 of that year, a white mob, inflamed by rumors that a young Black man had attempted to rape a white teenage girl, invaded Greenwood. By the end of the following day, thousands of homes and businesses lay in ashes, and perhaps as many as three hundred people were dead. Tulsa, 1921