there s all kinds of good things that you find in south tulsa. you ll find computer stores. you ll find bookstores. you ll find 24-hour pharmacy. you ll find health food stores. none of those things can be found in north tulsa. north tulsa is a food desert, and that s got to change. one of the things that people don t generally know is that the greenwood community actually came back after it was destroyed. it was rebuilt because the rural community, a rural land was still owned mostly by black folk. by the 1960s these towns started to disappear. there is this idea that greenwood was destroyed in 1921 and that s the end of the story,
but tulsa has a truth problem. hiding the truth, and people who will not challenge what is perceived to be true. what is keeping tulsa from being the great shining city on the hill is dealing with the legacy of the so-called tulsa race riot of 1921. white tulsans murdered black folks and were hastily trying to get rid of the bodies. by dumping them in mass graves around the city, many were trying to get rid of the body, in the late 1990s, center maxine horn and my father,
century, it is important to remember where the greenwood community is. downtown, separated by the frisco tracks. if you live in a society in which white supremacy is the prevailing look across the dividing line, the tracks, and see black folks driving nice cars and wearing fur coats and living in nice homes and it causes going active cognitive indifference, jealousy, that land was desired by corporate interests in tulsa. we know that. the idea was to remove the black folks from the land, move them farther north and use the land for what would be considered higher and better purposes. tulsa appears to be in danger of losing its prestige as the
going north to arctic street, one could see nothing but negro business places, going two more blocks, there you would behold greenwood avenue, the negro s wall street. originally from mississippi, she had set up a secretarial school right on greenwood avenue to teach young women all of these different skills, so they could get work as doctors and lawyers. this section of tulsa was a city within a city, every face seemed to where a happy smile. [ cheers and applause ] we are sitting in the mackie house.
it s pretty stunning and remarkable. the idea is we re going to show you what your place is. we don t care whether you ve fought for the country. when you re here, you play by our rules. the tulsa tribune published a series of inflammatory articles that really fomented hostility in the white community against the black community. tulsa was a pounder keg or a tinderbox needing only something to set the community alight. moving his money into his investment account in real time and that s. how you collect coins. your money never stops working for you with merrill, a bank of america company.