Lena and the Burning of Greenwood: A Tulsa Race Massacre Survival Story by Nikki Shannon Smith

Lena and the Burning of Greenwood: A Tulsa Race Massacre Survival Story

Girls Survive

Nikki Shannon Smith with Markia Jenai (Illustrator)

112 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction historical middle grade race dark emotional reflective medium-paced
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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...

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