CSPAN2 Tulsas Historic Greenwood District July 12, 2024
Area in early 21st century and he began to develop this area selling real estate to individual blacks who wanted to own property and the historic greenwood area is the area where he bought this property. It became known as the black wall street because of the number of Business Developers and entrepreneurs that came to the greenwood area to start a business. There was a lot of promise here because although blacks were not allowed to work in the oilfields that was a lot of opportunity for those people who work for the wealthier people who were in the oil business and so there was a lot of promi...