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Black History: What Happened to Black Wall Street In Oklahoma?

Darrell Garrett · Friday, March 18th 2011 at 11:21AM · 5503 views
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...

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Comments (3)

Cyn Bivens Friday, March 18th 2011 at 2:25PM

Thats a shame! It seems like an order coming from a Government agency, carried out by a klansmen chapter. It is too bad that no one tried to reclaim the fruits of such labor

Harry Watley Saturday, March 19th 2011 at 2:24PM

Hello to all,

Does the Black Wall Street of Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921 supports my point that our only permanent solution is that we must desire to become a sovereign people on a fertile portion of this continent? Since God has recently taken up our causes the same as the day when God took up the causes of the children of Israel and anointed Moses should we as Black Americans be championing the cause to be a sovereign people now since this tragedy will never happen again?

What say you?

Darrell Garrett Tuesday, March 22nd 2011 at 12:41AM

Thanks for the comments gentlemen. There is so much that has happened to us in our history that needs to be exposed and shared. I believe we and the rest of America needs to know our history to better understand our struggles of the past and why our struggle still continues today.

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