The Lerner Podcast

Author Carole Boston Weatherford Describes Her New Book Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

February 01, 2021 Lerner Books Season 1 Episode 26
The Lerner Podcast
Author Carole Boston Weatherford Describes Her New Book Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Show Notes

Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford provides 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.

Learn more and download an educator's guide at www.lernerbooks.com/Unspeakable. 

Music credits
"Farm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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