Nikki Shannon Smith – Lena and the Burning of Greenwood (retail) (epub)
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Name: Nikki Shannon Smith – Lena and the Burning of Greenwood (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 1.03 MB
Book:
Title: Lena and the Burning of Greenwood
Author: Nikki Shannon Smith, Markia Jenai
Language: English
Year: 2022
Subjects: Girls Survive; survival; survival stories; historical fiction; chapter books; diverse chapter books; #OwnVoices; own voices; history; US History; History of the United States; Children’s American History of 1900s; Children’s Multicultural Biographies; Capstone; Stone Arch Books
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 024141072
Total pages: 224 str.
Description:
In the early 1920s, the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the wealthiest Black community in the United States. But Tulsa is still a segregated city. "Black Wall Street" and white Tulsa are very much divided. Twelve-year-old Lena knows this, but she feels safe and sheltered from the racism in her successful, flourishing neighborhood. That all changes when Dick Rowland, a young Black man from Greenwood, is accused of assaulting a white woman. Racial tensions boil over. Mobs of white citizens attack Greenwood, terrorizing Black residents and businesses, and forcing many-including Opal and her family-to flee. Now Lena must help her family survive one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history. Readers can learn the real story of the Tulsa Race Massacre from the nonfiction backmatter, including a glossary, discussion questions, writing prompts, and author’s note, in this Girls Survive story.
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