Lena and the burning of Greenwood : a Tulsa Race Massacre survival story / by Nikki Shannon Smith ; illustrated by Markia Jenai.

By:

Smith, Nikki Shannon, 1971- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Jenai, Markia [illustrator.]

Material type:

TextSeries: Publisher: North Mankato, Minnesota : Stone Arch Books, [2022]Description: 103 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781663990563
9781666329445
1663990565
1666329444

Other title:

Lena & the burning of Greenwood

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Historical fiction.

DDC classification:

F SMI 23

LOC classification:

PZ7.S6566 Le 2022

Summary: Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921, racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to hide from the mob.

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Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921, racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to hide from the mob.