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>> it was the promised land for a lot of people coming out of slavery, wanting to escape. and wanting to raise their families in a loving community. >> freedmen , all this land that ultimately made them wealthy. >> in oklahoma, in 1906. a city called tulsa. >> tulsa boomed after the discovery of oil. tulsa became the world, the oil
Lynchings, and wanting to just raise their families in a loving community. >> freedmen had all this land with mineral rights that ultimately made them wealthy. >> we put ourselves in oklahoma in 1906. a city called tulsa. tulsa boomed after the discovery of oil.
They are really emblematic of the kind of middle class black person who lived in the greenwood community during its peak. i think if we fixate on the things that are glamorous and more flattering, and we forget the greenwood district is 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, like sewer systems, and things like that.
Lot of people coming out of slavery, wanting to escape lynchings, and wanting to just raise their families in a loving community. >> freedmen had all this land with mineral rights that ultimately made them wealthy. >> we put ourselves in oklahoma in 1906. a city called tulsa. tulsa boomed after the discovery of oil. tulsa became the world capital of the world.
Originally from mississippi. she had set up a secretarial school right on greenwood avenue to teach young women all these different skills so they could get work as secretaries to some of greenwood's black doctors and lawyers. >> this section of tulsa was a city within a city. every face seemed to wear a happy smile. >> we're sitting in the mackie house. that's lucy. they are really emblematic of the kind of middle class black person who lived in the greenwood community during its peak. i think if we fixate on the things that are glamorous and more flattering, and we forget the greenwood distr...