Prairie Heritage Book Award: 2025

Author Victor Luckerson was presented with the 2025 Prairie Heritage Book Award at a community book talk in Junction City, Kansas, on March 27, 2025.   Prairie Heritage president Jim Sands presented the author with the $1000 award.   The Awards Committee chose Luckerson for his book, Built from the Fire, the Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District:  One Hundred Years in the Neighborhood That Refused to Be Erased, as it describes experiences in many ways similar to other Black settlements in the prairie states.   Luckerson's presentation compared Greenwood to Junction City's Ninth Street, provoking lively discussion by participants at the well-attended event.