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Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Brandy Colbert
Ages: 14+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Balzer and Bray (Harper Collins)
ISBN: 978-0-06-35666-4
Keywords: racial violence, Jim Crow, lynchings, white supremacy, Oklahama
Moving backward and forward in time, Colbert interweaves survivors' histories with her own to contextualize the obliteration of Greenwood, an affluent African American community in Oklahoma, by a White mob. Extensive notes, sources, additional reading.