i grew up in a black word. it was wonderful because we went to all black schools and all black churches and everything was black, so that s all i knew. integration as a kid, as a kid it shattered my world. you all have never witnessed integration. you witnessed desegregation where they allow you to come into now what they used to keep you out of. so greenwood, even when you were coming up, long after the massacre, had black businesses. when did it start to change? when negro removal came in and right before that when they built an expressway right through the heart of greenwood business district.
it s just it s land that owned by the massacre or through other government programs like urban removal. we call it negro removal down here. on the corner of archery and greenwood avenues, the corner of black wall street, tulsa is building a museum that will tell the story of greenwood. some are skeptical. this museum. yeah. offia. greenwood rising. i think recall if the content in the walls is irrelevant recall. depicts american history and said black history because all of the things that the black people have indoors is done right here in america. it should be american history taught in all the schools all of
little areas well, i didn t take it lightly and i m still pretty much hurt about it. i follow better now. i still miss it. why can t black tulsa get a break? why do they keep targeting black tulsa? every time it seems plaque tulsa takes a step forward they beat it back. why? racism, pure, unadulterated racism. that never changed? what you refer to as black tulsa is not so black today. most of greenwood at the time of the massacre was about 44 blocks. now we re down to half a block that s black ownership.
who populated the greenwood community. the ultimate irony is that several dozen black men were indicted for inciting the riot. despite being blamed for the massacre and even though they received no financial assistance, the black people of greenwood began rebuilding. i don t know how we built back so quick. quick might have been eight, nine years, but then we built back really better than it is today i think, and segregation stayed on, segregation was on in those days. by the early 1940s there were well over 200 black-owned and operated businesses in the greenwood community, so there was a renaissance of black wall street that came back actually bigger and better than ever post-massacre. black wall street was a community twice born out of necessity and in an era when intense segregation prohibited
danger and they would have been killed with no repercussions from it, and, therefore, they never would have been able to have children, grandchildren, and that s what she meant. so the root word of reparations is repair. this situation has not been repaired. repair me. repair me has a person. repair me as a citizen. whatever that takes, whatever it looks like so we can have true rest trace. eloise cochran price is the cousin of dick roland. she and other descendants and living survivors of the massacre are suing the city of tulsa for what happened to their families. let s bring justice to people who have been harmed, who continue to be traumatized. generation after generation. we re talking about going on four generation of tragedy.