Did you know there was a “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa Oklahoma in the 1920s? It was arguably the most financially successful black community in America until in 1921 it was burned down by KKK racists, killing over 300 black people and destroying over 1,200 homes and 600 businesses.
Among the businesses and institutions lost were 21 churches, 21 restaurants and 30 grocery stores. Also destroyed were the bank, post office, hospital, law office, library, the bus system, six private airplanes and all the schools. Find this excellent book about Black Wall Street “Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921”. For more information on this topic, check out the following links:
Photos/Eyewitness Account:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010820/1921... Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood,_Tu... The AfroBlog:
http://afrodaddy.com/The-AfroBlog/financia...
Posted By: Darrell Garrett
Friday, March 18th 2011 at 11:21AM
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