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 oil fields, there 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. Good jobs. Good paying jobs. The people took advantage of it. In the greenwood area, you have doctors. You have lawyers. You have pharmacists. You have educators, just anything that went into sustaining a quality of life for a community could be found in the greenwood area. That was the origin of people looking for opportunities. There was land available here in tulsa. Subsequently, it just flourished and when they arrested this young man for this alleges assault on the a legelleged alleged assault at this Downtown Depa
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Community in tulsa was started by a real estate person from arkansas. His name was o. W. Gurley. He bought 40 plus acres in the the early 21st century. He began to develop this area, selling real estate to individual blacks who wanted to own property. 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 oil fields, there was a lot of opportunity for those people who worked for the wealthier people who were in the oil business. There was a lot of promise there. Good jobs. Good paying jobs. The people took advantage of it. In the greenwood area, you had doctors, you had lawyers, you had pharmacists, you had educators just anything that went into sustaining a quality of life for a community could be found in the greenwood area. Th
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