One hundred years ago, on May 31 and June 1 of 1921, white rioters ransacked and set ablaze a wealthy Black neighborhood in northern Tulsa, Oklahoma – a place known as "Black Wall Street," where Black people were business owners, doctors, lawyers and where they were building an...
Occasionally, I run across a printed story so compelling, that rather than write about it, I instead, shard in whole cloth an already written story. This Department of Justice (DOJ) press release on Tulsa’s Black Wall Street was one of those stories. At its core, this piece is emblemati...
There’s an element of social Darwinism to the work-work-work ethos, a hard-heartedness that Chandler connects to the likes of the eugenicist and longtime president of Stanford University Ray Lyman Wilbur. “It is common talk that every individual is entitled to economic security,” Wilbur onc...
Even when Black homebuyers were able to build, against purposely unfavorable odds, a thriving community of homeownership, they faced the constant threat of harassment and violence. Greenwood, a neighborhood and business district in Tulsa often referred to as “Black Wall Street,” met its demise in...
It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking and Happy Meals. Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred. A gifted young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the...
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Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, tours Black Wall Street in Tulsa's Greenwood neighborhood at 10:20 a.m. CDT before visiting the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum and holding a campaign rally near the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman at 4 p.m. ...
enfranchisement also play a part. The post-Reconstruction era reversed political gains made by formerly enslaved African Americans. Racist laws and explicit violence leveled historical attempts to grow wealth, including the massacre of "Black Wall Street" in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma....
Wall Street is often compared and contrasted to Main Street. The term "Main Street" is used as a metaphor for individual investors, small businesses, employees, and the overall economy. It's derived from the common name for the principal street of a town where most of the local businesses ...