Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham's lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations-both yesterday and today.Īvailable Februfrom Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print from Little Brown for Young Readers. When 17-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her familys property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what's right the night Tulsa burns. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. The history of Black Wall Street and the violent events of 1921 in Tulsa, when mobs of white. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the present and the past. Stream Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street on HBO Max. A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we've come with race relations. 7 likes, 0 comments - Orion Luminiferous (pitchblackfire) on Instagram: 'I just dropped 2 singles with many more onna way My new slogan is ’Half Human Boy.
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