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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...

>> in the immediate aftermath there was a grand jury, and it indicted i think its 88 people some of whom were white, most of whom were black. >> first it was the indictment of jb strafford who had a hotel and was a lawyer. he along with a number of other black men was indicted for inciting a riot. >> let the blame for this negro up rising lay right where it belongs, on those armed negroes and their followers who started this trouble and who instigated it. and any persons who seeks to put half th...