Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
by Carole Boston Weatherford, Illustrated by Floyd Cooper
- 4 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Coretta Scott King Award Winning Book 2022
- National Book Award Honor 2021
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2021
Carolrhoda Books (Feb 02, 2021)
Hardcover, 32 pages
Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book
Description of Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford
“Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation’s history.”
Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide 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.

- ISBN: 9781541581203
- Imprint: Carolrhoda Books
- Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
- Parent Company: Lerner Publishing Group
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