Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre

Author:   Alverne Ball ,  Stacey Robinson ,  Renaldo Anderson ,  Collette Yellowrobe
Publisher:   Abrams
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9781419755170


Pages:   64
Publication Date:   13 May 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre


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One hundred years after the Tulsa Race Massacre, Across the Tracks is a celebration and memorial of Greenwood, Oklahoma In Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre, author Alverne Ball and illustrator Stacey Robinson have crafted a love letter to Greenwood, Oklahoma. Also known as Black Wall Street, Greenwood was a community whose importance is often overshadowed by the atrocious massacre that took place there in 1921. Across the Tracks introduces the reader to the businesses and townsfolk who flourished in this unprecedented time of prosperity for Black Americans. We learn about Greenwood and why it is essential to remember the great achievements of the community as well as the tragedy which nearly erased it. However, Ball is careful to recount the eventual recovery of Greenwood. With additional supplementary materials including a detailed preface, timeline, and historical essay, Across the Tracks offers a thorough examination of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Black Wall Street.

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Author:   Alverne Ball ,  Stacey Robinson ,  Renaldo Anderson ,  Collette Yellowrobe
Publisher:   Abrams
Imprint:   Abrams ComicArts
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.320kg
ISBN:  

9781419755170


ISBN 10:   141975517
Pages:   64
Publication Date:   13 May 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Focus on rebuilding efforts ends this brief but informative book on a hopeful note -- Booklist


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Alverne Ball has an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia College Chicago. He is the recipient of the 2014 and 2015 Glyph Rising Star Award for his writing on One Nation: Old Druids. In 2009, he received the first-ever Luminarts graphic novel writing award. Ball lives in Joliet, Illinois. Stacey Robinson is an assistant professor of graphic design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As part of the collaborative team Black Kirby with artist John Jennings, Robinson creates graphic novels, gallery exhibitions, lectures, and workshops that use strategies to imagine new worlds inspired by design, hip-hop, the arts and sciences, and diasporic African belief systems.

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