Description |
55 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Note |
Subtitle from cover. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
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. |
Biography |
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 |
Subject |
Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921 -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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African Americans -- Violence against -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Tulsa (Okla.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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United States -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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African Americans -- Violence against -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa -- History -- 20th century -- Cartoons and comics.
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Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) -- History -- Cartoons and comics.
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Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) -- Race relations -- Cartoons and comics.
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Tulsa (Okla.) -- History -- Cartoons and comics.
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Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921 -- Cartoons and comics.
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COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir.
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
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African Americans -- Violence against.
(OCoLC)fst02025838
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Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Oklahoma -- Tulsa.
(OCoLC)fst01205469
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Tulsa Race Massacre (Tulsa, Oklahoma : 1921) (OCoLC)fst02009167
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Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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Genre/Form |
Graphic novels.
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Historical comics. (OCoLC)fst01921682
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Comics (Graphic works) (OCoLC)fst01921613
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Graphic novels. (OCoLC)fst01726630
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Nonfiction comics. (OCoLC)fst01921721
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Graphic novels.
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Added Author |
Robinson, Stacey, 1972- artist.
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Other Form: |
Online version: Ball, Alverne. Across the tracks. New York : Abrams ComicArts MEGASCOPE, 2021 9781647003401 (OCoLC)1249498183 |
ISBN |
9781419755170 (hardback) |
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141975517X (hardback) |
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