Common Marker News Today

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...

Most people youre going to interview, you need to ask this question. where are you people from? and if they say, well, were from oklahoma or tulsa or greenwood, well, when did they get here? scene grayson, take one, common marker, mid slate. >> my father, whos creek indian, was from oklahoma. my family is a mixture of indian, black and white. and here i am. >> the story of oklahoma really began with the five civilized tribes in the 1830s, 1840s .