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1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

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Juvenile Literature

Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
Call Number: Print only - F L347d
ISBN: 9780316384933
Publication Date: 2017-02-21
Up from the Ashes by Hannibal B. Johnson; Clay Portis
Call Number: eBook - Limit 1 user access
ISBN: 9780585363578
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Tells the story of the Greenwood community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, its destruction in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, and its rebuilding.
Unspeakable by Carole Boston Weatherford; Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
Call Number: On Order
ISBN: 9781541581203
Publication Date: 2021-02-02
Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history.
Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert
ISBN: 9780063056664
Publication Date: 2021-10-05
A searing new work of nonfiction about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre.
What Was the Tulsa Race Massacre Of 1921? by Caleb Gayle; Who HQ; Tim Foley (Illustrator)
Call Number: Archives
ISBN: 9780593521717
Publication Date: 2023-04-25
Learn how envy and racism led to the tragic destruction of the thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in this thought-provoking addition to the New York Times bestselling What Was? series!
Black Wall Street by LaQuitta Barnes
ISBN: 9781736940617
Publication Date: 2021-04-20
This book tells how a community rebounded from a tragic event, and restored the legacy of entrepreneurship, success and the importance of community. These events went on to affect the whole country, and impacted the growth of many other communities.

Built from the Fire

Tulsa 1921

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History

Reconstructing the Dreamland

Death in a Promised Land book cover

Death in a Promised Land

The Burning

Riot and Remembrance

Black Wall Street

eBooks

Tulsa 1921 by Randy Krehbiel; Karlos K. Hill (Foreword by)
Call Number: Limit 1 user access
ISBN: 9780806163314
Publication Date: 2019-09-19
Reconstructing the Dreamland by Alfred L. Brophy; Randall Kennedy (Foreword by)
Call Number: Unlimited Users
ISBN: 9780195161038
Publication Date: 2003-04-10
Violent Utopia by Jovan Scott Lewis
ISBN: 1478018569
Publication Date: 2022-10-28
In Violent Utopia Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post-Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian Territory to contemporary efforts to rebuild Black prosperity.
Death in a Promised Land by Scott Ellsworth; John Hope Franklin (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0807117676
Publication Date: 1992-01-01
More than just the chronicle of one of the nation's most devastating racial pogroms, this critically acclaimed study of American race relations is, above all, a gripping story of terror and lawlessness, and of courage, heroism, and human perseverance.
They Came Searching by Eddy F. Gates
Call Number: In print and 1 electronic copy
ISBN: 9781571681454
Publication Date: 1997-04-01

Novels

Fire in Beulah by Rilla Askew
ISBN: 0670888435
Publication Date: 2001-01-15
False Creeds by Darren Can
ISBN: 9780573709043
Publication Date: 2021-01-04
A Play centered centered on the story of Jason, a young man who embarks on a journey to discover the legacy of his family's past. After receiving a "memory box" from his dying grandmother containing photos and journals related to the Tulsa race massacre, Jason realizes his family's history is profoundly connected to the tragic events.