If we must die

By Pat M. Carr

Subjects: Oklahoma, fiction, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Schools, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Tulsa (okla.), fiction, Race relations, Schools, Riots

Description: When seventeen-year-old, white Berneen O'Brien moves to Tulsa and takes a job at a segregated elementary school, she becomes increasingly involved in the lives of her black colleagues and shares their experiences during the deadly race riot that destroys Greenwood in 1921.