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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. ...

In a rural corridor of Chatham County, neighbors are reflecting on history and heritage in a fight against proposed warehouse development.

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.

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