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The 1921 Tulsa Massacre | National Endowment for the Humanities

Washington nicknamed it Negro Wall Street, which morphed into Black Wall Street ... Blacks formed Oklahoma clubs and worked to make Oklahoma an all-Black state.

What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed - The New York Times

Greenwood was so promising, so vibrant that it became home to what was known as America's Black Wall Street. But what took years to build ...

'Black Wall Street' museum recalls Oklahoma ... - Canton Repository

The Greenwood Rising Black Wall Street History Center commemorates the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921, and celebrates the people who rebuilt a ...

FAQs - Greenwood Rising

... Avenue and Archer Street is the gateway to the celebrated Black Wall Street. ... Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum in Oklahoma City. Thanks to a ...

The Tulsa Race Massacre - Oklahoma Historical Society

The center develops education resources and hosts events focused on community dialogue. The Tulsa Race Massacre · Tulsa and Black Wall Street · Causes and ...

Black Wall Street - Tulsa Library

Williams family image provided by the Tulsa Historical Society & Museum ... The origins of Greenwood District are tied to Oklahoma's early Black boosters and ...

Greenwood Rising

A state-of-the-art history center located at the heart of Tulsa's Greenwood District honoring the legacy of Black Wall Street before and after the Tulsa ...

Decades After the Tulsa Race Massacre, Urban 'Renewal' Sparked ...

“So they rebuilt Greenwood and it was just wonderful. It became known as The Black Wall Street of America.” Footage of the Prosperous Greenwood ...

A Century After The Race Massacre, Tulsa Confronts Its Bloody Past

... Black community in Tulsa, Okla., in 1921. Eyewitnesses recalled the ... The Black Wall Street Memorial is seen in Tulsa on June 18, 2020.

99th Anniversary of Tulsa massacre of hundreds of Black lives ...

... Black lives recalls thousands of Blacks lynched an ... Before suffering ruin, Greenwood – or Black Wall Street – was the most affluent Black ...

'All hell broke loose': A look at Black Wall Street | KLRT - FOX16.com

Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a bustling hub of commerce and culture for its Black ... Museum; photo courtesy Tulsa Historical Society & Museum. Some ...

Trump Tulsa rally on Juneteenth recalls Black Wall Street massacre

During a historic period of racial tensions, Trump's plan for a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma is calling attention to a 1921 race massacre in ...

Tulsa, 100 Years Later: Black Wall Street Remembered - Essence

The notion of rebuilding another Black Wall Street has been hampered by the 200-acre Oklahoma State University satellite campus and the Tulsa ...

Tulsa race massacre - Wikipedia

The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre that ...

Tulsa, 100 Years Later : Code Switch - NPR

... museum, is being erected on the opposite side of the street. ... Down the hill, a bit away from the Black Wall Street part of Greenwood Avenue, ...

We lived like we were Wall Street - Washington Post

In the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, white mobs destroyed Greenwood, which was one of the wealthiest black communities in the country.

100 years after the Tulsa massacre, Black Wall Street's legacy of ...

This year marks the centennial anniversary of the deadly assault on the homes, businesses, and bodies of the Black people who lived and prospered in a 35-block ...

In a Series of Dignified Portraits, Ajamu Kojo Recalls the Racial ...

NEARLY A CENTURY AGO, the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Okla., was destroyed. The thriving black business district known as Black Wall Street ...

Tulsa Race Massacre trauma passed down through generations

The Tulsa Race Massacre led to generations of trauma. A century after Black Wall Street's destruction, many Black Tulsans still live in ...

'Terror In Tulsa: The Rise And Fall of Black Wall Street' Docuseries ...

... Museum, the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation, the Tulsa ... He spent his first 11 seasons with the Oklahoma City Thunder after playing ...