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Lena and the burning of Greenwood : a Tulsa Race Massacre survival story
(2022)
By: Smith, Nikki Shannon, 1971-

Fiction

Book

Series:
Call Numbers:
J/PAPERBACK/SERIES/GIRLS

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Paperbacks J/PAPERBACK/SERIES/GIRLS Available

Details

PUBLISHED
North Mankato, Minnesota : Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone [2022]
DESCRIPTION

103 pages ; 19 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781666329445, 1666329444 :, 9781663990563, 1663990565, 1666329444, 9781666329445
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES

Girls survive.

NOTES

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

Ages 8-12

Grades 4-6

Additional Credits

CREDITS

Jenai, Markia, illustrator

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SUBJECTS

African American families -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa -- Fiction.

Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921 -- Fiction.

Massacres -- Oklahoma -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

African American neighborhoods -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Tulsa (Okla.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

African Americans -- Fiction.

Race relations -- Fiction.

Survival -- Fiction.

Historical fiction.

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