Angel of Greenwood
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4.7 • 15 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A piercing, unforgettable love story set in Greenwood, Oklahoma, also known as the “Black Wall Street,” and against the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.
Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. Angel Hill is a loner, mostly disregarded by her peers as a goody-goody. Her father is dying, and her family’s financial situation is in turmoil.
Though they’ve attended the same schools, Isaiah never noticed Angel as anything but a dorky, Bible toting church girl. Then their English teacher offers them a job on her mobile library, a three-wheel, two-seater bike. Angel can’t turn down the money and Isaiah is soon eager to be in such close quarters with Angel every afternoon.
But life changes on May 31, 1921 when a vicious white mob storms the Black community of Greenwood, leaving the town destroyed and thousands of residents displaced. Only then, Isaiah, Angel, and their peers realize who their real enemies are.
Customer Reviews
This is a wonderful story of love and survival
This book should be made into a movie to show everyone the history of what happened to a race of people that was living the good life and to have it taken away by idiot thinking humans. My boyfriend and I has been to Greenwood in Tulsa Oklahoma and learned the sad history of what happened. I think everyone should visit this wonderful place and see the history. All races.