Tulsa's 'Black Wall Street' Flourished as a Self-Contained Hub in Early 1900s
Before the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, Greenwood Avenue featured luxury shops, restaurants, movie theaters, a library, pool halls and nightclubs.
Source: history.com
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Before the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, Greenwood Avenue featured luxury shops, restaurants, movie theaters, a library, pool halls and nightclubs.
The 1921 attack by a White mob on an all-Black neighbourhood in Oklahoma was one of the worst episodes of racial violence in US history.