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FREE Storytime and Book Signing with local author Najah-Amatullah Hylton at Best of Books

Date/Time

July 07, 2021 to July 07, 2021
11:00 AM until 12:30 PM

Description

Najah-Amatullah Hylton will be sharing her newest picture book, Opal's Greenwood Oasis, and signing books.

The year is 1921, and Opal Brown would like to show you around her beautiful neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Filled with busy stores and happy families, Opal also wants you to know that "everyone looks like me." In both words and illustrations, this carefully researched and historically accurate book allows children to experience the joys and success of Greenwood, one of the most prosperous Black communities of the early 20th Century, an area Booker T. Washington dubbed America's Black Wall Street. Soon after the day narrated by Opal, Greenwood would be lost in the Tulsa Race Massacre, the worst act of racial violence in American history.

Location

Best of Books View map
1313 E Danforth Rd,
Edmond, OK 73034, US

Additional Information

Phone

405-340-9202

Cost

Free to attend.

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