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Unspeakable by Carole Boston Weatherford

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Unspeakable

The Tulsa Race Massacre

by Carole Boston Weatherford

Length 19 minutes

Language English

Narrators January LaVoy & Carole Boston Weatherford

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Tracing the history of African Americans in Tulsa's Greenwood district, this book chronicles the devastation that occurred in 1921 when a white mob attacked the Black community. News of what happened was largely suppressed, and no official investigation into the Tulsa Race Massacre occurred for seventy-five years. Sensitively introducing young audiences to this tragedy, Unspeakable concludes with a call for a better future. Please note that you may download an accompanying PDF that provides enhanced materials for this audiobook. To download the PDF please visit lernerbooks.com/unspeakable

Children's

Carole Boston Weatherford is a New York Times bestselling author and poet as well as the winner of the 2019 Washington Post Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award. The recipient of numerous awards including the Coretta Scott King Award and the Caldecott Honor, she currently resides in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

January LaVoy is a talented actress and voiceover artist who is best known for her role on the long-running ABC daytime drama One Life to Live. A proud member of the Actors' Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA, she is a full-time faculty member in the Department of Theater and Dance at Emory University. She is the recipient of over thirty Earphones Awards, seven Audie Awards, and was named Publishers Weekly's Audiobook Narrator of the Year in 2013.