Opal's Greenwood Oasis - Quraysh Ali Lansana

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..