Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
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]
References
- ↑ Carole Boston Weatherford. Wikipedia. Retrieved January 31 2021.
- ↑ Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre. Goodreads. Retrieved January 31 2021.
- ↑ Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre. Publisher Weekly. Retrieved January 31 2021.
- ↑ Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre. Brookline Booksmith. Retrieved January 31 2021.
- ↑ Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre. Amazon. Retrieved January 31 2021.
