A review by rachelwalexander
Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre by Alverne Ball

5.0

A brief, very accessible graphic history of Tulsa's "Black Wall Street" and the 1921 race massacre. I appreciated the narrative clearly identifying major players in the building of Greenwood, which gives readers ample avenues for further research. The inclusion of a timeline upfront and an essay in the back are great context and also situate the events in Tulsa in the larger context of colonization and indigenous land theft in Oklahoma, and the interactions between African-Americans and indigenous people at the time. The art is dynamic and page layouts work really well to add to the narrative flow.