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In the 1920s, there was a Strong Black Community here in tulsa called greenwood. These people were the core of black entrepreneurship. People call it The Black Wall Street. Greenwood was like putting harlem, Bourbon Street, and Chocolate City all in one place. But White Tulsans talked about greenwood as Little Africa or [bleep] land. Tulsa was a powder keg, needing only something to set the community alight. Between 100 and 300 people, most of them black, were killed. Today we call it a massacre...

black entrepreneurship. people call it the black wall street. >> like putting harlem, bourbon street, and chocolate city all in one place. >> but white paulsons talked about it as little africa or land. >> tulsa was a powder keg, needing only something to set the community alight. between 100 and 300 people, most of them black, were killed. today we call it a massacre. they were hastily trying to get rid of the bodies. by dumping them in mass graves around the city. >> we of tulsa of a...

Lawyers. >> this section of tulsa was a city within a city. every face seemed to wear a happy smile. >> were sitting in the mackey house. thats lucy. the mackeys are really emblematic of the kind of middle-class black person who lived in the greenwood community during its peak. but i think if we fixate on the things that are glamorous and more flattering, and we forget that the greenwood district is a part of a city called tulsa. you have a black segregated community thats not getting its fair s...

A city called tulsa. >> tulsa boomed after the discovery of oil. tulsa became the oil capital of the world. oil drew people really from all over seeking fame and fortune. the population just mushroomed. >> back then, people were moving to the city every day, whether its a sharecropper leaving some rural oklahoma county, looking

The mackies are really emblematic of the kind of middle-class black person who lived in the greenwood committee during its peak. but i think that if we fixate on the things that are glamorous and more flattering, we forget that the greenwood district was a part of a city called tulsa. you have a black, segregated community, that is not getting its fair share of tax dollars for infrastructure like roads, sewer systems, and things like that.

>> it was the promised land for a lot of people coming out of slavery, wanting to escape. and wanting to raise their families in a loving community. >> freedmen , all this land that ultimately made them wealthy. >> in oklahoma, in 1906. a city called tulsa. >> tulsa boomed after the discovery of oil. tulsa became the world, the oil

Lynchings, and wanting to just raise their families in a loving community. >> freedmen had all this land with mineral rights that ultimately made them wealthy. >> we put ourselves in oklahoma in 1906. a city called tulsa. tulsa boomed after the discovery of oil.

They are really emblematic of the kind of middle class black person who lived in the greenwood community during its peak. i think if we fixate on the things that are glamorous and more flattering, and we forget the greenwood district is a part of a city called tulsa. you have a black segregated community that is not getting its fair share of tax dollars for infrastructure like roads, like sewer systems, and things like that.

Lot of people coming out of slavery, wanting to escape lynchings, and wanting to just raise their families in a loving community. >> freedmen had all this land with mineral rights that ultimately made them wealthy. >> we put ourselves in oklahoma in 1906. a city called tulsa. tulsa boomed after the discovery of oil. tulsa became the world capital of the world.

Originally from mississippi. she had set up a secretarial school right on greenwood avenue to teach young women all these different skills so they could get work as secretaries to some of greenwoods black doctors and lawyers. >> this section of tulsa was a city within a city. every face seemed to wear a happy smile. >> were sitting in the mackie house. thats lucy. they are really emblematic of the kind of middle class black person who lived in the greenwood community during its peak. i think if ...