Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the - Tulsa Race Massacr

One hundred years after the Tulsa Race Massacre, Across the Tracks is a celebration and memorial of Greenwood, Oklahoma In Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre, author Alverne Ball and illustrator Stacey Robinson have crafted a love letter to Greenwood, Oklahoma. Also known as Black Wall Street, Greenwood was a community whose importance is often overshadowed by the atrocious massacre that took place there in 1921. Across the Tracks introduces the reader to the businesses and townsfolk who flourished in this unprecedented time of prosperity for Black Americans. We learn about Greenwood and why it is essential to remember the great achievements of the community as well as the tragedy which nearly erased it. However, Ball is careful to recount the eventual recovery of Greenwood. With additional supplementary materials including a detailed preface, timeline, and historical essay, Across the Tracks offers a thorough examination of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Black Wall Street.

Product details

• Authors: Alverne Ball
• Assisted by: Stacey Robinson (Illustration), Robinson Stacey (Illustration)
• Publisher: Abrams
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781419755170
• ISBN: 978-1-4197-5517-0
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Oklahoma, 20th Century, Social & cultural history, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir, Social and cultural history, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Black & Asian Studies, Graphic Novels: True Stories & Non-Fiction, HISTORY / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people