Victor Luckerson, author of Built From The Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street, has, after years of painstaking research, penned a multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black Wall Street,” that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrification.

Luckerson will be in conversation with Wanda S. Lloyd for this public talk, co-sponsored by The Learning Center, the Savannah Yamacraw branch of ASALH (Association for the Study of African American Life and History), and The Book Lady Bookstore.

In Built from the Fire, journalist Victor Luckerson moves beyond the mythology of Black Wall Street to tell the story of an aspirant black neighborhood that, like so many others, has long been buffeted by racist government policies. Through the eyes of dozens of race massacre survivors and their descendants, Luckerson delivers an honest, moving portrait of this potent national symbol of success and solidarity—and weaves an epic tale about a neighborhood that refused, more than once, to be erased.