TY  - BOOK
AU  - Colbert,Brandy
TI  - Black birds in the sky: the story and legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre 
SN  - 9780063056664
AV  - F704 .T92 C65 2021
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - Oklahoma
KW  - Tulsa
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Racism
KW  - Riots
KW  - Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921
KW  - Tulsa (Okla.)
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Young adult literature
KW  - Informational
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-214) and index; May 30, 1921 -- Oklahoma! Soon be livin' in a brand-new state -- To be Black in America -- Fighting for survival -- May 31, 1921 -- Black Wall Street comes alive -- Extra! Extra! Read all about it!, or The promise of a lynching -- June 1, 1921 -- The aftermath -- The legacy of Greenwood -- Afterword
N2  - "In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in US history. But how did it come to pass? What exactly happened? And why are the events unknown to so many of us today? These are the questions that . . . author Brandy Colbert seeks to answer in this . . . nonfiction account of the Tulsa Race Massacre"--Provided by publisher
ER  -