This book of historical fiction describes the experience of a late 19th century era Black family participating in the Oklahoma Land Rush.
Readers learn of the brutal racism faced by the family while sharecropping in Texas and as they try to secure economic independence in Oklahoma as one of the Black families that later formed Black towns like Tulsa.
The afterword provides a description of the theft of Native American land that enabled the Oklahoma Land Rush.
For background reading, we recommend I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land. [Adapted from publisher’s description.]
ISBN: 9780316299336 | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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