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Across the Tracks : Remembe...
One hundred years after the Tulsa Race Massacre, Across the Tracks is a celebration and memorial of Greenwood, OklahomaIn 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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monografia Rebiun38175570 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun38175570 m o d | cr#cnu|||||||| 210901s2021 xx o ||||0 eng d 9781647003401 1647003407 MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ 976.68600496073 23 Ball, Alverne Across the Tracks Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre Across the Tracks 1st ed New York, NY Abrams, Inc. 2021 New York, NY New York, NY Abrams, Inc. 2021 1 online resource (143 pages) 1 online resource (143 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Back Cover One hundred years after the Tulsa Race Massacre, Across the Tracks is a celebration and memorial of Greenwood, OklahomaIn 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 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 Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921- Comic books, strips, etc African Americans- Violence against- Oklahoma- Tulsa- History- 20th century- Comic books, strips, etc African Americans- Violence against- Oklahoma- Tulsa- History- 20th century- Cartoons and comics Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921- Cartoons and comics Massacre de Tulsa, Tulsa, Okl., 1921- Bandes dessinées. Massacre de Tulsa, Tulsa, Okl., 1921- Bandes dessinées COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) African Americans- Violence against. Race relations. Tulsa (Okla.)- Race relations- History- 20th century- Comic books, strips, etc Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.)- Race relations- History- 20th century- Comic books, strips, etc Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.)- History- 20th century- Comic books, strips, etc United States- History- 20th century- Comic books, strips, etc Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.)- History- Cartoons and comics Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.)- Race relations- Cartoons and comics Tulsa (Okla.)- History- Cartoons and comics États-Unis- Histoire- 20e siècle- Bandes dessinées United States. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq Oklahoma- Tulsa. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrKMPCXwRr37bJWVfJRrq Graphic novels Historical comics. Comics (Graphic works) Graphic novels. History. Nonfiction comics. Graphic novels. Historical comics. Nonfiction comics. Bandes dessinées historiques. Bandes dessinées autres que de fiction. Robinson, Stacey Anderson, Reynaldo Yellow Robe, Colette 1-4197-5517-X