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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 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.

There were 40 other black townships around. >> oklahoma. the whole state. not just tulsa. the whole state was becoming the dreamland. >> it was the promise land for a 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.