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America lost its Black Wall Street in the Tulsa Massacre Can the Bay Area re-create it?

Rediscovering Black Wall Street: New Film Reaches Back Into Tulsa s Once Thriving Business District

Beyond Tulsa: The Historic Legacies and Overlooked Stories of America s Black Wall Streets

Beyond Tulsa: The Historic Legacies and Overlooked Stories of America’s ‘Black Wall Streets’ Time 1 hr ago Olivia B. Waxman © Courtesy of National Park Service, Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site A circa 1917 interior photo of St. Luke s Penny Savings Bank. Between May 31 and June 1, 1921, as many as 300 people were killed in one of the deadliest race massacres in U.S. history. Riled up by rumors of a Black man raping a young white woman, a white mob burned down the Tulsa, Okla., neighborhood of Greenwood a.k.a. “Black Wall Street,” the affluent commercial and residential neighborhood founded in the city by Black Americans who went west after the Civil War.

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