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Remembering Black Wall Street: The Tulsa Massacre 100 Years Later
Rogue Reads- Tulsa Race Massacre; A Historical Through-Line
Uncle Tom's Cabin Book Discussion Group
Remembering Black Wall Street: The Tulsa Massacre 100 Years Later
Rogue Reads- Tulsa Race Massacre; A Historical Through-Line
Uncle Tom's Cabin Book Discussion Group
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Published one hundred years after the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot (more commonly referred today as the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre), this book distinguishes the Tulsa of today from the Tulsa of a century ago. It reflects on Tulsa's historic Greenwood District, known as the Black Wall Street, from the prodigious entrepreneurial spirit that pervaded it to the carnage that characterized the 1921 massacre, to the post-massacre rebound and rebuilding that raised...
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In the early 1900s, an indomitable entrepreneurial spirit brought national renown to Tulsa's historic African American community, the Greenwood District. This "Negro Wall Street" bustled with commercial activity. In 1921, jealously, land lust, and racism swelled in sectors of white Tulsa, and white rioters seized upon what some derogated as "Little Africa," leaving death and destruction in their wake. In an astounding resurrection, the community rose...
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