Description:
A century after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre decimated a thriving Black community, nine city council members are grappling with the Greenwood community's ongoing fight for racial justice and repair. Journalist Kristal Brent Zook shows how these elected officials have struggled to talk to one another, and to work together, in an effort to attain justice.
Review Quotes:
"We tend to forget about the unknown names behind so many decisions in cities and towns across America. Award-winning journalist Kristal Brent Zook gets inside the hearts and minds of real, living, breathing city councilors to uncover their pain and their triumphs as they try to decide whether or not to make amends for one of the most significant acts of domestic terrorism in our history, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre."
--Tatsha Robertson "editor in chief, The Root"