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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. ...

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 an undetermined number, it should have not taken any nine years. >> anyone who thinks this crime scen...

Lawyers. >> this section of tulsa was a city within a city. every face seemed to wear a happy smile. >> we're sitting in the mackey house. that's lucy. the mackeys are really emblematic of the kind of middle-class black person who lived in the greenwood community during its peak. but i think if we fixate on the things that are glamorous and more flattering, and we forget that the greenwood district is a part of a city called tulsa. you have a black segregated community that's not getting its fair share of tax dollars for infrastructure, like roads, like sewer systems, and things like that.

A city called tulsa. >> tulsa boomed after the discovery of oil. tulsa became the oil capital of the world. oil drew people really from all over seeking fame and fortune. the population just mushroomed. >> back then, people were moving to the city every day, whether it's a sharecropper leaving some rural oklahoma county, looking

The mackie's are really emblematic of the kind of middle-class black person who lived in the greenwood committee during its peak. but i think that if we fixate on the things that are glamorous and more flattering, we forget that the greenwood district was a part of a city called tulsa. you have a black, segregated community, that is not getting its fair share of tax dollars for infrastructure like roads, sewer systems, and things like that.