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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...

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People describe it as a massacre. ive been calling it a war. >> theres systemic causes for what happened here in 1921. but we fixate on this trigger incident that involved a black boy and a white girl on an elevator. the teenage boy is a boy named dick rowan. hes at work on memorial day, shining shoes in downtown tulsa. dick rowland was 19 years old in the spring of 1921. he worked in a white-owned and white-patronized shine parlor on main street in downtown tulsa. >> his nickname is diamond dic...

Memorial day. people describe it as a massacre. ive been calling it a war. >> theres systemic causes for what happened here in 1921. but we fixate on this trigger incident that involved a black boy and a white girl on an elevator. the boy was born in dick wellen. hes at work on memorial day shining shoes in downtown tulsa. dick rowland was 19-year-old in the spring of 1921. he worked in a white-owned and white-patronized shine parlor on main street in downtown tulsa. >> his nickname is diamond d...

On memorial day. some people call it a massacre. ive been calling it a war. >> there is systemic causes for what happened here in 1921. but you fixate on this trigger incident that involved a black boy and a white girl on an elevator. his name was dick wellen. hes at work on memorial day shining shoes in downtown tulsa. dick rowland was 19-year-old in the spring of 1921. he worked in a white-owned and white patronized shine parler on main street in downtown tulsa. >> his nickname is diamond dick...

Shining shoes in downtown tulsa. dick rowland was 19-year-old in the spring of 1921. he worked in a white-owned and white-patronized shine parler on main street in downtown tulsa. >> his nickname is diamond dick, so hes known to be this flashy young guy. another person in the community that everyone knows but hes never been seen as a trouble maker. >> theres not a restroom facilities in the shine part. so the white owner has arranged for them to walk down the street to the drexel building. on th...

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Parlor on main street in downtown tulsa. his nick name is diamond dick. h hes known to be this flashy young guy. another person in the community that everyone knows but he never seen as a troublemaker. >> there is not a restauroom in the shine part. the white owner arranged for them to walk down main street to the direction building. on the fourth floor there was a "colored" restroom. something happens when he enters the elevator. the elevators are manually operated by a wheel. it takes a great ...

As Tulsa commemorates the centennial of the massacre this weekend, the city is still haunted by unresolved questions about it: How many people were killed?