Across the tracks : remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre

Author/Creator:

Ball, Alverne (Fiction writer), author

Publication/Creation:

New York : Abrams ComicArts MEGASCOPE, 2021

Resource Type:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Across the tracks : remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre / Alverne Ball, Stacey Robinson

Related Names

Additional Author/Creators:

Robinson, Stacey, 1972-, illustrator

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Graphic novels
Historical comics
Nonfiction comics

Subjects:

Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921--Comic books, strips, etc
African Americans--Violence against--Oklahoma--Tulsa--History--20th century--Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels.--Juvenile literature
Tulsa (Okla.)--Race relations--History--20th century--Comic books, strips, etc
Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.)--Race relations--History--20th century--Comic books, strips, etc
Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.)--History--20th century--Comic books, strips, etc

Description/Summary

Summary:

"In 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, Greenwood was a community whose importance is often overshadowed by the atrocious massacre 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."--Netgalley.com.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

55 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm

General Note:

Subtitle from cover.

Biographical/Historical Note:

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. Stacey Robinson is an assistant professor of graphic design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As part of the collaborative team Black Kirby with artist John Jennings, Robinson creates graphic novels, gallery exhibitions, lectures, and workshops that use strategies to imagine new worlds inspired by design, hip-hop, the arts and sciences, and diasporic African belief systems

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937387381002486

ISBN:

9781419755170
141975517X

OCLC Number:

1224246118

Barcode:

010003492393