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Loading... Lena and the Burning of Greenwood: a Tulsa Race Massacre Survival Storyby Nikki Shannon Smith
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Man, I don't know if Capstone publishers or Nikki Shannon Smith suggested this topic for the Girls Survive series, but they are on it. So glad to see literature for kids about this horrific part of American history that has all but been erased. The Greenwood neighborhood was a thriving and financially powerful Black community in Oklahoma, wiped out by a racist massacre in 1921. It's not an easy story, but it is powerfully told. One of the better books in the series, and that's saying something. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to hide from the mob. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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