1921 and Today: Remembrance and ProtestLike this list

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• Tulsa, 1921

  Reporting a Massacre

  Krehbiel, Randy,

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  Examines the events and players contributing to, participating in, and responding to Tulsa's 1921 race riot and massacre and the social, political and historical context in which it occurred.

• Up From the Ashes

  a Story About Building Community

  Johnson, Hannibal B.,

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  This picture book tells the story of the Greenwood community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, its destruction in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, and its rebuilding.

• Raising White Kids

  Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America

  Harvey, Jennifer, 1971-

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  Raising White Kids is for families, churches, educators, and communities who want to equip their children to be active and able participants in a society that is becoming one of the most racially diverse in the world while remaining full…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Raising White Kids by Jennifer Harvey

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  Raising White Kids is for families, churches, educators, and communities who want to equip their children to be active and able participants in a society that is becoming one of the most racially diverse in the world while remaining full…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Color of Law

  a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

  Rothstein, Richard

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  Richard Rothstein has painstakingly documented how American cities, from San Francisco to Boston, became so racially divided. Rothstein describes how federal, state, and local governments systematically imposed residential segregation:…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• So You Want to Talk About Race

  Oluo, Ijeoma,

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  Oluo tackles the sensitive, hyper-charged racial landscape in current America, discussing the issues of privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word.

• White Fragility

  Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

  DiAngelo, Robin, 1956-

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  Groundbreaking book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when discussing racism that serve to protect their positions and maintain racial inequality.

• Between the World and Me

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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  Told through the author's own evolving understanding of the subject over the course of his life comes a bold and personal investigation into America's racial history and its contemporary echoes.

• Death in a Promised Land

  the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

  Ellsworth, Scott (Historian)

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  Death in a Promised Land is the compelling story of racial ideologies, southwestern politics, and yellow journalism, and of an embattled black community's struggle to hold onto its land and freedom. More than just the chronicle of one of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Be An Antiracist

  Kendi, Ibram X.,

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  From the National Book Award–winning author comes a bracingly original approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves. Ibram X. Kendi’s concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District

  Johnson, Hannibal B.

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  A collection of photos of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, also known as Black Wall Street.

• Brown Girl Dreaming

  Woodson, Jacqueline,

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  In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South.

• Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

  Eddo-Lodge, Reni,

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  Exploring issues from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Reni Eddo-Lodge has written a searing, illuminating, absolutely necessary examination of what it is to be a person of colour in Britain today.

• Black Wall Street

  From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District

  Johnson, Hannibal B.

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  An in-depth exploration of the Tulsa Race Massacre and the aftermath.

• This Book Is Anti-racist

  Jewell, Tiffany,

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  This book is written for the young person who doesn't know how to speak up to the racist adults in their life. It is written so children and young adults will feel empowered to stand up to the adults who continue to close doors in their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fire Next Time

  Baldwin, James, 1924-1987

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  A plea and a warning to citizens to examine the actual state of America after a century of emancipation.

• The Fire This Time

  a New Generation Speaks About Race

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  The National Book Award-winning author of Salvage the Bones presents a continuation of James Baldwin's 1963The Fire Next Time that examines race issues from the past half century through essays, poems and memoir pieces by some of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Riot on Greenwood

  the Total Destruction of Black Wall Street, 1921

  Gates, Eddie Faye

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  "Using her breadth of knowledge, her many contacts, and the trust shes engendered in the Greenwood community, Gates has gathered the largest collection of survivors stories to appear in one volume. Placing these stories in historical…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Breathe

  a Letter to My Sons

  Perry, Imani, 1972-

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  A Princeton University professor of African-American studies explores the terror, grace and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America, sharing insights into what it means to parent children in a persistently unjust…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Reconstructing the Dreamland

  the Tulsa Riot of 1921 : Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation

  Brophy, Alfred L.

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  Brophy draws on his own extensive research into contemporary accounts and court documents to chronicle this devastating riot, showing how and why the rule of law quickly eroded. Brophy shines his lights on mob violence and racism run amok,…Read moreRead more of this annotation