Review: Was The Book Angel Of Greenwood Historically Accurate?

Was the Book Angel of Greenwood Historically Accurate? Have you ever read a historical fiction book? Have you ever questioned its factuality? Well, today that's exactly what I will be doing for the book Angel of Greenwood by Randi Pink. Randi Pink's novel Angel Of Greenwood was historically accurate.
Randi Pink accurately portrayed aerial attacks in Angel of Greenwood. In the book Randi Pink states “Look up, he said to Dorothy Mae, remembering her longing to fly. Angel thinks they’ll drop a bomb. Is it possible? Dorothy Mae stopped moving and shielded her eyes for a better look at the plane’s underside. Dear God, she said simply. Get everyone out(Pink 261)!” This quote is one of the many times Randi Pink accurately wrote and described the

I could see planes circling in mid-air, Franklin wrote in a 10-page manuscript on yellow legal pad that was discovered in 2015. They grew in number and hummed, darted and dipped low. I could hear something like hail falling upon the top of my office building... The side-walks were literally covered with burning turpentines balls. I knew all too well where they came from and I knew all too well why every burning building first caught from the top(Evans 2).”Both texts express real life during the massacre. They both show when whites were using aerial attacks in Greenwood during the massacre. Farell Evans and Buck Colbert Franklin, a survivor of the massacre, from history.com demonstrate that Randi Pink was accuracte when describing aerial attacks in her book, Angel of Greenwood. Another example of Randi Pink's factuality in the aerial attacks, in her book Angel of Greenwood, is when she states “But their brief beam of hope was darkened by the sound of the bomb dropping atop the Mount. The townspeople gasped in unison, and Isaiah yelled Out. Isaiah couldn’t tell the difference between sunrise and Mount Zion exploding(Pink 274).” This

White men stacking crates of stolen tools from Mr.Odom’s hardware shop into their automobiles. Sipping taken sodas and licking pinched ice cream from Williams. (Pink 256).” As shown above, Randi writes about men and women stealing from the hard work of Greenwood, this idea is historically true. You can see that this is historically true when DeNeen L. Brown from National Geographic states “ They took everything they thought was valuable”, recalled Hooker, who died at 103 years old in 2018. “They smashed everything they couldn’t take. (Brown 16-17).”As you can see with this quote from National Geographic and Randi Pink’s quote from the book, what Randi wrote about white men and women stealing from Greenwood was historically factual.Randi Pink again does an amazing job of portraying the stealing that actually happened in Greenwood, in 1921. Another instance where Randi Pink was accurate when writing about white men and women stealing in Greenwood is when she wrote “She watched as their men cleared the way for them. Checking shops and boutiques twice over and then sending the women in to take what they wanted before it was all destroyed(Pink 257).” According to research done by The New York Times a mob of white men would go into stores and homes and take anything valuable they saw (Williams 36). This idea of women and men stealing from Greenwood is important. So Randi making sure that she portrayed this part of history correctly was very