Black Birds in the Sky

Colbert did a great job with her research and making Black Birds a really readable narrative, bookended by her own thoughts in the Preface and Afterwards. The first few chapters set up historical context for this massacre, going through other riots/massacres that happened right before Tulsa and the consistent violence enacted by white supremacy anytime Black people made advances towards equality. However, this means that the actual details and story of that night and morning are much more surface than more in-depth books like Hilary Beard's The Burning. This would be a great book to start with as an introduction to the Tulsa Race Massacre for 8th to adult, but would be well-paired with more primary sources or even more detailed nonfiction accounts.