Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

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Carole Boston Weatherford (RESPECT: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul) and Floyd Cooper (Juneteenth for Mazie) created a powerful acknowledgment of this haunting and significant moment in our nation's past. The Tulsa Race Massacre was largely suppressed and remains an overlooked chapter of racial violence. Weatherford and Cooper optimistically offer hope for a better future.

Winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards for Author and Illustrator

A Caldecott Honor Book

A Sibert Honor Book

Longlisted for the National Book Award

A Kirkus Prize Finalist

A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book

"A must-have"—Booklist (starred review)

Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history. The book traces the history of African Americans in Tulsa's Greenwood district and chronicles the devastation that occurred in 1921 when a white mob attacked the Black community.

News of what happened was largely suppressed, and no official investigation occurred for seventy-five years. This picture book sensitively introduces young readers to this tragedy and concludes with a call for a better future.

Download the free educator guide here: https://lernerbooks.com/download/unspeakableteachingguide


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781541581203
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date: 02/02/2021
Pages: 32
Sales rank: 60,732
Product dimensions: 9.30(w) x 11.10(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile: 1100L (what's this?)
Age Range: 9 - 10 Years

About the Author

Carole Boston Weatherford is the author of numerous award-winning books. 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. 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 University of Oklahoma and went on to develop a distinctive art technique called oil erasure.
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