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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...

Memorial day. people describe it as a massacre. i've been calling it a war. >> there's 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. he's 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 dick, so he's known to be this flashy young guy. another person in the community that everyone kno...

On memorial day. some people call it a massacre. i've been calling it a war. >> there is systemic causes for what happened here in 1921. but you fixate on this trigger incident that involved a black boy and a white girl on an elevator. his name was dick wellen. he's 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 parler on main street in downtown tulsa. >> his nickname is diamond dick, so he's known to be this flashy young guy. there's another person in the community that everyone...

Monday, may 3rd, 1921. happens to be memorial day. >> may 30th could have happened at any point in time, because tulsa was already a powder keg. we do know that there are definitely kkk members who are part of the police force. marching on the state on memorial day day. some people call it a massacre. i've been calling it a war. >> there is systemic causes for what happened here in 1921. but you fixate on this trigger incident that involved a black boy and a white girl on an elevator. the boy was born in dick wellen. he's at work on memorial day