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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Written by Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper
Narrated by Carole Boston Weatherford and January LaVoy
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This powerful look at the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history, sensitively introduces young audiences to the tragedy.
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Carole Boston Weatherford
Carole Boston Weatherford has written many award-winning books for children, including Kin, illustrated by her son Jeffery and a Coretta Scott King Author Honor recipient; Box, which won a Newbery Honor; Unspeakable, which won the Coretta Scott King Award, a Caldecott Honor, and was a finalist for the National Book Award; Respect: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award; ALA Notable Children’s Book You Can Fly; and Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square; Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement; and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. Carole lives in North Carolina. Visit her at CBWeatherford.com.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A complete story in crystal clear language. Must read if you are like me and just love to nerd into unpopular history.