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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. The book traces the history of African Americans in Tulsa's Greenwood district and chronicles the devastation that occurred in 1921 when a white mob attacked the Black community.
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[[File:Unspeakable- The Tulsa Race Massacre.jpg|thumb|Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre Cover Book]]
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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre written by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Floyd Cooper. Carole Boston Weatherford is an African-American author and critic. She writes children's literature and some historical books, as well as poetry and commentaries. Weatherford is best known for her books Juneteenth Jamboree, Freedom in Congo Square, and You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen. Notably, Weatherford has written literary criticisms of racist representations in children's entertainment. <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Boston_Weatherford Carole Boston Weatherford]. Wikipedia. Retrieved January 31 2021.</ref>
  
News of what happened was largely suppressed, and no official investigation occurred for seventy-five years. This picture book sensitively introduces young readers to this tragedy and concludes with a call for a better future. <ref>https://www.amazon.com/Unspeakable-Massacre-Carole-Boston-Weatherford/dp/1541581202/ref=zg_bs_3135_69?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=S9M9JTD694KQ0VXN4MY3</ref>
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== Plot ==
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This book tells a history of Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in United States history. The book traces the history of African Americans in Tulsa's Greenwood district and chronicles the devastation that occurred in 1921 when a white mob attacked the Black community. Begins by celebrating the successes of the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, also known as Black Wall Street. It was a place where commerce and community thrived through more than 200 businesses, including beauty shops, movie theaters, soda parlors, two Black-owned newspapers and the largest Black-owned hotel in the country. Then changed happen when white woman accusing black man of assault. <ref>[https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/54222468-unspeakable Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre]. Goodreads. Retrieved January 31 2021.</ref> <ref>[https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-5415-8120-3 Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre]. Publisher Weekly. Retrieved January 31 2021.</ref>
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== Controversy ==
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This book retells the history of racial violence, white mob attacked the black community in United States . It started with a white woman accusing a Black man of assault and resulting in his arrest, an inflammatory headline that incited an angry white mob, and the mob’s subsequent massacre of Black citizens and burning of the entire Greenwood neighborhood. The white mob then stormed Greenwood, looting and burning homes and businesses alike. Hundreds of Black people were killed and the neighborhood was completely destroyed. <ref>[https://www.brooklinebooksmith.com/book/9781541581203 Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre]. Brookline Booksmith. Retrieved January 31 2021.</ref> <ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Unspeakable-Massacre-Carole-Boston-Weatherford/dp/1541581202 Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre]. Amazon. Retrieved January 31 2021.</ref>

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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre Cover Book

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre written by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Floyd Cooper. Carole Boston Weatherford is an African-American author and critic. She writes children's literature and some historical books, as well as poetry and commentaries. Weatherford is best known for her books Juneteenth Jamboree, Freedom in Congo Square, and You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen. Notably, Weatherford has written literary criticisms of racist representations in children's entertainment. [1]

Plot

This book tells a history of Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in United States history. The book traces the history of African Americans in Tulsa's Greenwood district and chronicles the devastation that occurred in 1921 when a white mob attacked the Black community. Begins by celebrating the successes of the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, also known as Black Wall Street. It was a place where commerce and community thrived through more than 200 businesses, including beauty shops, movie theaters, soda parlors, two Black-owned newspapers and the largest Black-owned hotel in the country. Then changed happen when white woman accusing black man of assault. [2] [3]

Controversy

This book retells the history of racial violence, white mob attacked the black community in United States . It started with a white woman accusing a Black man of assault and resulting in his arrest, an inflammatory headline that incited an angry white mob, and the mob’s subsequent massacre of Black citizens and burning of the entire Greenwood neighborhood. The white mob then stormed Greenwood, looting and burning homes and businesses alike. Hundreds of Black people were killed and the neighborhood was completely destroyed. [4] [5]

  1. Carole Boston Weatherford. Wikipedia. Retrieved January 31 2021.
  2. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre. Goodreads. Retrieved January 31 2021.
  3. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre. Publisher Weekly. Retrieved January 31 2021.
  4. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre. Brookline Booksmith. Retrieved January 31 2021.
  5. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre. Amazon. Retrieved January 31 2021.