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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...

>> theres not a restroom facilities in the shine parlor. so the white owner has arranged for them to walk down main street to the drexel building. on the fourth floor, there was, quote, a colored restroom. something happens when he enters the elevator. elevators are manually operated by a wheel. it takes a great amount of skill to get the floor of the elevator and the actual floor to line up. that particular elevator was very difficult to center. so the belief is that sarah didnt quite have it l...

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...

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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...

Troublemaker. >> theres not a restroom facilities in the shine parlor. so the white owner has arranged for them to walk down main street to the drexal building. on the fourth floor there was, quote, a colored restroom. something happens when he enters the elevator. elevators are manually operated by a wheel. it takes a great amount of skill to get the floor of the elevator and the actual floor to line up. that particular elevator was very difficult to center, so the belief is that sarah didnt qu...

May 30th could have happened at any point in time because tulsa was already a powder cake. we do know there are kkk members that are apart of the police force proudly marking on memorial streets on memorial day. people diabeescribing it as a massacre, i have been calling it a war. >> there is systematic causes of what happened here in 1921. we fixate on this incident involving a black girl and a white girl on an elevator. dick rollen was 19-year-old. he worked in a white shine

12 prominent Black people from Wisconsin history that you should know about Drake Bentley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The history of Wisconsin cant be told without mentioning countless Black figures. From the first African slaves fighting for freedom to the modern day leaders of our time rallying the public to make change, Black people have carved a path and left a stamp on the Badger state.  February is Black History Month and a time to reflect on Black lives and Black storie...