Black birds in the sky : the story and legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre / Brandy Colbert.

First edition.

9780063056664 hardcover
0063056666 hardcover

New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]

©2021

English

216 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

F704.T92 C65 2021

976.6/8604/52

"In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in US history. But how did it come to pass? What exactly happened? And why are the events unknown to so many of us today? These are the questions that . . . author Brandy Colbert seeks to answer in this . . . nonfiction account of the Tulsa Race Massacre"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-214) and index.

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist, 2022.
Winnr of the Boston Globe Horn Award for non-fiction, 2022

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