From A to Z: the entrepreneurial spirit of Tulsa's Greenwood District, a thriving African American business hub destroyed in 1921.
Black Wall Street was real. Between the 1900s and 1920, Greenwood Avenue in Tulsa housed more than 600 African American–owned businesses: banks, theaters, newspapers, hotels. Wealth accumulated and circulated within the community. Children grew up witnessing economic self-determination.
This alphabet book is not nostalgic; it is historical. It shows young readers that thriving Black economic systems existed, and why knowing that history matters. Faculty gift this to colleagues raising kids, and to students who need to see their own inheritance reflected in the literature they encounter.
DETAILS
- Board book
- HBCU Prep School
- Colorful alphabet format, A–Z
