Area in early 21st century and he began to develop this area selling real estate to individual blacks who wanted to own property and the historic greenwood area is the area where he bought this property. It became known as the black wall street because of the number of Business Developers and entrepreneurs that came to the greenwood area to start a business. There was a lot of promise here because although blacks were not allowed to work in the oilfields that was a lot of opportunity for those people who work for the wealthier people who were in the oil business and so there was a lot of promise there. There were good jobs, goodpaying jobs and the people took advantage of it. And in the greenwood area you had doctors said you had lawyers and pharmacists. You had educators, anything that went into sustaining a quality of life for a community could be found at the greenwood in. That was the origin of a prepeople were looking for opportunities and there was land available here in tulsa. Subsequently it just florist and when they arrested this young man for this alleged assault on the elevator in this Downtown Department store the word got around that they were going to try to and quite naturally the community said no, there isnt going to be a lynching. The first night they went down and Nothing Happened but the second night that they went down a shot was fired and from that the melee continued and chaos broke out everywhere. As a result of whole greenwood area was burned to the ground. The only building left standing was the high school and that is where the red cross director who was sent to tulsa from st. Louis set up the aid station that was set up at the red cross. The aftermath of that was that people did not have a place to live. The city passed an ordinance that said that you could not rebuild unless he used brick. Well brick, using brick was a prohibitive cost and so lochte franklin who was an attorney that had just recently moved to tulsa filed a lawsuit against the city and eventually got that lot taken off, that ordinance taken off of the books and people were able to rebuild their homes using wood. The Greenwood District was by the middle of the 30s like 1935 they had rebuilt the Greenwood District. And that is what this story should be all about and that is the resiliency of the people and they are being able to recover from such a disaster. Now we are standing in reconciliation port. The purpose of support was to call the attention to the people who did not know about the 1921 race riots, for people to remember that such a disaster happened and hopefully it will never happen again. Our whole effort here in tulsa now is reconciliation. Where all the reconciliation. If you look at the power of reconciliation, it gives you a history of coming to indian territories and people working and living together and up at the top you will see people reaching down and helping other individuals up to the top. That is really what we ought to be all about all of the time. Man should treat man like we are all human beings. This november we are going to take out the house. We are going to hold the senate and we are going to keep the white house