One hundred years after the Tulsa Race Massacre, Across the Tracks
is a celebration and memorial of Greenwood, Oklahoma
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.