black entrepreneurship. people call it the black wall street. like putting harlem, bourbon street, and chocolate city all in one place. but white paulsons talked about it as little africa or land. tulsa was a powder keg, needing only something to set the community alight. between 100 and 300 people, most of them black, were killed. today we call it a massacre. they were hastily trying to get rid of the bodies. by dumping them in mass graves around the city. we of tulsa of an undetermined number, it should have not taken any nine years. anyone who thinks this crime scene is not going to speak does not have the ears to hear. the earth is shaking. i came to tulsa when i was in the sixth grade, so that has been well, i don t know how many years. my mother is from oklahoma. and there was a strong black community in tulsa called greenwood. these people were the core of black entrepreneurship. and they would help you get your business started. 1920 greenwood was booming.
mary, by the hand and fled out the west door on greenwood, running amidst showers of bullets. i was so afraid because bullets were coming down around us, but the planes were up in the air shooting down. and i could hear those bullets falling, and there were a lot of people running, dodging the bullets and just afraid. they re shooting people on sight. even if you re complying with their demands. that s what happened to dr. ac jackson. a.c. jackson was a prominent black surgeon. he was accosted at his home. he exited in compliance with the demands of the mobsters, hands held high, but he was actually gunned down by a young white men, and then he ultimately bled