that s got to change. one of the things that people don t generally know is that the committee actually came back after it was destroyed. it was rebuilt because the rural community, rural lands, were still owned mostly by black folk. but by the 1960s, these towns started to disappear. there is this idea that greenwood was doe extraordinary in 1921 and that s the end of the story, but there s a hundred years after that that we need to talk about. it s a tale of two cities. north tulsa is a predominantly african-american community.
that got to change. a lot of things that people don t know is the community actually came back it was destroyed. it was rebuilt because the rural community, rural lands were owned by black folks. the 1960s, these towns started toz disappear. there is this idea that greenwood was destroyed in 1921 and that s the end of the story. there is 100 years after that, that we need to talk about. tulsa is just a tale of two cities. it is predominantly
bring one disaster on top of another. reporter: this is america, land of the dry. reservoirs evaporating, rivers barely moving. farmland cracked and poarched b a persistent drought. the u.s. department of agriculture reports almost half of the nation s counties have been declared disasters because of the drought. much of the west, midwest and southeast bathed in red, having endured severe droughts this year. the fear in colorado county texas is potential wildfires, fuelled by the trees killed in last year s drought. we very well in rural lands may have lost between 105 million trees. it s been so hot in minnesota, even its famous lakes provide little relief. we had temperatures pushing 90 degrees in some of our shallow lakes. causing fish kills in at least 25 lakes. withering in the fields, the price of corn set a new high this week, but there s other trouble, too.