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A riveting and timely young adult debut novel that asks difficult questions about what choices you can make when the society around you is in denial

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The Nation Must Awake: Our Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 Cover:Paperback But to accept the offerMary Parrish was reading in her home when the Tulsa race massacre began on the evening of May 31, 1921. Parrishs daughter, Florence Mary, called the young journalist and teacher to the window. Mother, she said, I see men with guns. The two eventually fled and unwittingly became eyewitnesses to the death of hundreds of Black Oklahomans and the destruction of the Greenwood district, a prosperous, primarily Black area known nationally as Black Wall