Opal's Greenwood oasis /
Hylton, Najah-Amatullah,
Opal's Greenwood oasis / Najah-Amatullah Hylton and Quraysh Ali Lansana ; illustrated by Skip Hill. - 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
The year is 1921, and Opal Brown would like to show you around her beautiful neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Filled with busy stores and happy families, Opal also wants you to know that "everyone looks like me."In both words and illustrations, this carefully researched and historically accurate book allows children to experience the joys and success of Greenwood, one of the most prosperous Black communities of the early 20th Century, an area Booker T. Washington dubbed America's Black Wall Street. Soon after the day narrated by Opal, Greenwood would be lost in the Tulsa Race Massacre, the worst act of racial violence in American history.
9781733647441 1733647449
2020944756
African American girls--Juvenile fiction.
Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921--Juvenile fiction.
Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.)--Juvenile fiction.
Picture books.
Opal's Greenwood oasis / Najah-Amatullah Hylton and Quraysh Ali Lansana ; illustrated by Skip Hill. - 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
The year is 1921, and Opal Brown would like to show you around her beautiful neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Filled with busy stores and happy families, Opal also wants you to know that "everyone looks like me."In both words and illustrations, this carefully researched and historically accurate book allows children to experience the joys and success of Greenwood, one of the most prosperous Black communities of the early 20th Century, an area Booker T. Washington dubbed America's Black Wall Street. Soon after the day narrated by Opal, Greenwood would be lost in the Tulsa Race Massacre, the worst act of racial violence in American history.
9781733647441 1733647449
2020944756
African American girls--Juvenile fiction.
Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921--Juvenile fiction.
Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.)--Juvenile fiction.
Picture books.