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Unspeakable the Tulsa Race Massacre

"Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history"--

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Main Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- (Author)
Other Authors: Cooper, Floyd (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, [2021]
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Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921 > Juvenile nonfiction.
African Americans > Violence against > Oklahoma > Tulsa > History > 20th century > Juvenile nonfiction.
Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) > Race relations > History > 20th century > Juvenile nonfiction.
Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile nonfiction.
Tulsa (Okla.) > Race relations > History > 20th century > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:"Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history"--
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Audience:Ages 8-12
Grades 4-6
ISBN:9781541581203
1541581202
Author Notes:Carole Boston Weatherford is the author of numerous award-winning books and the winner of the 2025 Children's Literature Legacy Award. Her picture book BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom, illustrated by Michele Wood received a Newbery Honor. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, illustrated by the late Floyd Cooper, was a National Book Award longlist title, won the Coretta Scott King Award for author and illustrator,and received a Caldecott Honor and a Sibert Honor. She is dedicated to writing poetry for children and is the 2025 and 2026 Young People's Poet Laureate. When she's not traveling or visiting museums, Carole is mining the past for family stories, fading traditions, and forgotten struggles. She lives in North Carolina. Floyd Cooper (1956-2021) was a Coretta Scott King Award winner and illustrator of numerous books for children including Ruth and the Green Book, A Spy Called James, and Max and the Tag-Along Moon . Unspeakable, one of his final picture books, was a National Book Award longlist title, a Sibert Honor book, and a Caldecott Honor book. He received a degree in fine arts from the Universityof Oklahoma and went on to develop a distinctive art technique called oil erasure.

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