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

Overview

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.

The book, Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN# 9781419755170 in Hardcover by Alverne Ball may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.