The Lerner Podcast

Floyd Cooper Reads from Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre and Shares His Family Connection

February 01, 2021 Season 1 Episode 27
The Lerner Podcast
Floyd Cooper Reads from Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre and Shares His Family Connection
Show Notes

Award-winning illustrator Floyd Cooper brings to life 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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