You will want to read and study this moving and beautiful award-winning nonfiction book for Black History Month or anytime you are teaching your students about this little-known tragedy that happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921. Appropriate for a middle grade to middle school audience, it will lead to deep discussions about this era of discrimination against Black Americans. This unit includes questions you can use as you read through the book or as independent work. Vocabulary words, pre-readin