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. S
[background speaking] protest. S a nonviolent bus boycott in februarylabama until 1, 1960, virtually Nothing Happened in the arena of civil rights. It was dead, absently dead, even Martin Luther king said that. In 1960 things did change dramatically in greensboro. Greensboro is the origin of all the events that occur subsequent. O february 1, 1960 mcneil happened to be there. And richmond. Thehen you hear a railroad, train is coming from far away and it is coming closer and you become increasingly aware of the track the train is rolling on. Divides whitewhat from black. That is what separates the white ghetto from the black ghetto. That headsrack somewhere but you do not know exactly where. And it is not really for the good of society. Citizens, and walked across the track in the wrong direction, went to the other side. Sitinshe four walked across the track in the wrong direction, to the other side. Greensboro liked to think of itself as polite and moderate and open to different points
Sit in protests along with archival footage. That begins right now. And we feel also that one of the great pillars of american democracy is that we have the right to protest for our rights. We will do it in an orderly fashion. This is a nonviolent protest. We are depending on moral and spiritual forces using the method of passive resistance. From the bus boycott in montgomery, alabama until february 1, 1960, virtually Nothing Happened in the arena of civil rights. I mean, it was dead, absolutely dead. Even Martin Luther king said that. In 1960, things did change dramatically in greensboro. It is the origin of all of those events that occur subsequent to february 1, 1960, and i happened to be there. Mcneil happened to be there, and so did richmond and blair. When you hear a railroad, the train is coming from far away and it is coming closer and you become increasingly aware of the track that the train is rolling on. And that track is what divides white from black. That is what separates
Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news, reporting tonight Kristen Welker. We begin tonight with tragedy in texas. A hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people caught fire and crashed in central texas. Its believed to be the largest loss of life in history due to a hot air balloon accident. Its all unfolding about 30 miles south of austin in an area popular for and sky diving. Tonight the governor is asking for prayers. Charles hadlock has our report. Reporter the charred remains of the hot air balloon are all thats left after an Early Morning ride through the sky turned tragic. The balloon was carrying at least 16 people. There are no survivors. The crash site is near high power lines. Nearby. It wasnt like an explosion. It just went up. Reporter wylie says she sees balloons in the area all the time, but never imagined Something Like this. The way it went up nobody stood a chance. Reporter it was owned the heart of texas air balloon rides. Victim specialists, weather exper
Many people may have plans to head to the beach. It will be a nice day today. We are waking up to clear skies. Thats what you can see and in fact the bay area for the most part is waking up to fair skies out there. 67 in antioch a few cooler spots. 50s and here is a look at your temperature for today. And our valley locations will be well into the 90s even a few mid90s. Check out the coast. Well see a lot of 70s. If you have the day off. Take them out there. Highs for today, 74 in downtown San Francisco. That is going to be warm. 71 in daley city. Pushing close to mid70s at Half Moon Bay. And after. 78 is the high. Heating up for the east bay valley locations. And around mid90s. 86 in vallejo. They get to the mid90s. 90 in so were heating up today. As you can see from the 7 day forecast. Enjoy the heat today, tomorrow were heading back to work and school, the fog returns for the Morning Hours. Maybe some patchy drizzle. Were cooling down 10 degrees. Mid80s tomorrow and 70s for the bay.