Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre (Caldecott Honor Book)

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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre (Caldecott Honor Book)

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Carole Boston Weatherford (RESPECT: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul) and Floyd Cooper (Juneteenth for Mazie) created a powerful acknowledgment of this haunting and significant moment in our nation's past. The Tulsa Race Massacre was largely suppressed and remains an overlooked chapter of racial violence. Weatherford and Cooper optimistically offer hope for a better future.

Tracing the history of African Americans in Tulsa's Greenwood district, this book chronicles the devastation that occurred in 1921 when a white mob attacked the Black community. News of what happened was largely suppressed, and no official investigation into the Tulsa Race Massacre occurred for seventy-five years. Sensitively introducing young audiences to this tragedy, Unspeakable concludes with a call for a better future. Please note that you may download an accompanying PDF that provides enhanced materials for this audiobook. To download the PDF please visit lernerbooks.com/unspeakable

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ISBN-13:	9781666501506
Publisher:	Dreamscape Media
Publication date:	06/29/2021
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	6.04(w) x 5.04(h) x 1.13(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

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Carole Boston Weatherford is a New York Times bestselling author and poet as well as the winner of the 2019 Washington Post Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award. The recipient of numerous awards including the Coretta Scott King Award and the Caldecott Honor, she currently resides in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Floyd Cooper is from Oklahoma, and earned a degree in fine arts from the University of Oklahoma before moving to New York City in 1984 to pursue a career in illustration. He received a Coretta Scott King Award for his illustrations in The Blacker the Berry and a Coretta Scott King Honor for his illustrations in Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea and I Have Heard of a Land. Cooper lives in Pennsylvania with his family.

January LaVoy is a talented actress and voiceover artist who is best known for her role on the long-running ABC daytime drama One Life to Live. A proud member of the Actors' Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA, she is a full-time faculty member in the Department of Theater and Dance at Emory University. She is the recipient of over thirty Earphones Awards, seven Audie Awards, and was named Publishers Weekly's Audiobook Narrator of the Year in 2013.

Carole Boston Weatherford is a New York Times bestselling author and poet as well as the winner of the 2019 Washington Post Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award. The recipient of numerous awards including the Coretta Scott King Award and the Caldecott Honor, she currently resides in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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"This moving account sheds light on shameful events long suppressed or ignored. All collections should consider this title's value in providing historical context to current conversations about racism and America's ongoing legacy of white supremacy."—starred, School Library Journal

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★ 2020-11-18
A once-thriving Black community was destroyed, and the story of how it happened went untold for decades.
In the beginning of the 20th century, Tulsa, Oklahoma, was emerging as a thriving oil town, and African Americans worked to establish communities in the face of discrimination. The separate neighborhoods that grew out of segregation meant that Black businesses sprang up to serve those who could not frequent White establishments. The African American neighborhood of Greenwood had so many it became known as “Black Wall Street,” with an impressive range of services and opportunities. The tenuous nature of Black prosperity was reinforced, however, when a White woman accused a Black man of assault. White mobs, unable to reach the suspect, descended on Greenwood, looting the businesses and burning the community to the ground. With no protection or assistance from law enforcement, all that the residents had achieved was lost. Further, it took 75 years before an official investigation was launched. Author Weatherford and illustrator Cooper join forces to present this important story with sensitivity and care for younger readers. Weatherford’s measured prose depicts the events in a cleareyed, age-appropriate narrative. Oklahoma native Cooper’s muted palette and oil-erasure style effectively portray first the achievement and then the devastation that followed. The author’s and illustrator’s notes provide valuable insight and context, as does the rear endpapers’ photograph of the massacre’s aftermath.
A somber, well-executed addition to the history as the incident approaches its 100th anniversary. (Informational picture book. 8-12)

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