The Victory of Greenwood, a new book by Carlos Moreno, invites readers to learn more about the full history of the Greenwood community, aka “Black Wall Street,” through the lives of some of its most prominent figures such as, John & Loula Williams, B.C. Franklin, and Rev. Ben H. Hill. This new collection of 20 historical biographies dispels myths and inaccuracies about the events leading up to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 via newly discovered primary sources, and shows Greenwood’s local and national significance after its rebuilding, to today. Pre-sales for signed copies of the book are available now on the book’s website.
The Victory of Greenwood, a project of Spark Collaborative, LLC, will be published by All Souls’ book imprint, Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, in late May of 2021, coinciding with the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The author learned about the history of Greenwood from the staff of Oklahoma’s longest-running Black newspapers, The Oklahoma Eagle, while doing freelance design work for a 2002 special issue about the Massacre and its aftermath. Moreno says, “This work transcends the Massacre and the upcoming centennial. I wanted to write about the incredibly positive impact that Greenwood had, and still has, on the world, even after all attempts to destroy it.”
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