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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. They were hastily trying to get rid of the bodies by dumping them in mass graves around the city. ...

Africa, if you were female, you got 160 acres. the freedmen allotments totaled 1,192,240 acres. 1,100,000. i really want people to understand that. that's a lot of land for a small geographical area. it's a lot of land to own. >> as a descendant of a creek freedman, i believe land is power. land is wealth. land is really the core of black entrepreneurship. >> you had two types of blacks in oklahoma. you had those freedmen. then you had state blacks. state blacks came to oklahoma looking for the promised land.

>> okay. so on this map, this is the creek nation. this little yellow spot here is township tulsa. the green area are the allotments of the freedmen. everybody got 160 acres. if you were full blood creek, if you were a full black from africa, if you were female, you got 160 acres. the freedmen allotments totaled 1,192,240 acres. i really want people to understand that. that's a lot of land for a small geographical area. it's a lot of land to own.

So on this map, this creek nation. this little yellow spot here is township tulsa. the green area are the allotments of the freedmen. everybody got 160 acres. if you were full blood creek, if you were a full black from africa, if you were female, you got 160 acres. the freedmen allotments totaled 1,192,240 acres. i really want people to understand that. that's a lot of land for a small geographical area. it's a lot of land to own.