this whole community. this freeway is on my inheritance. who s to say that my great grandfather would not have left this for me. a business on greenwood, which i desire to this day. by the early 1970s,you urban renewal gobbled up more than a thousand businesses and homes. and it moved west and east rather than the more prosperous neighborhoods south of the railroad tracks. urban renewal, which i call urban removal, came in and knocked down all the old housing and old buildings and really destroyed our community. bobby eaton jr. and his son trey continue to carry on the eaton legacy. the barbershop is closed, but the family founded eaton media
reopened. because a lot of the markers will say not reopened. plaques line the sidewalks of greenwood, serving as a reminder of the businesses that burned on these streets, most of which were never rebuilt. see, like that one says not reopened. construction company not reopened. at the height of black wall street, there were over 300 black-owned businesses on 12 miles of greenwood avenue. today there are just 23. this was one of them. it had been in her family for three generations. i started out on greenwood, as a shampoo assistant in the 90s. so i totally been down there for over 20 years and been owning it for 14 years. one day she noticed that other black business owners in the area were moving out. the reason i m going live is to tell you all about what s going on, on greenwood. this was a mini mart.