Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre by Ball, Alverne
Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre by Ball, Alverne
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In the graphic novel history 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--a community whose importance is often overshadowed by the atrocious slaughter 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. "Across the Tracks not only personalizes and therefore heightens the tragedy we know will come, but it also reframes that tragedy. Black perseverance and joy take center stage in a way it seldom does when discussing Greenwood." --The Beat
Author: Alverne Ball
Publisher: Abrams Comicarts - Megascope
Published: 05/04/2021
Pages: 64
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781419755170
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/2021 pg. 35
Publishers Weekly 04/26/2021
School Library Journal 09/03/2021 pg. 1
Author: Alverne Ball
Publisher: Abrams Comicarts - Megascope
Published: 05/04/2021
Pages: 64
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781419755170
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/2021 pg. 35
Publishers Weekly 04/26/2021
School Library Journal 09/03/2021 pg. 1
About the Author
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.
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