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Black Wall Street: The Fight To Preserve Tulsa's Greenwood Neighborhood

Black Wall Street: The Fight To Preserve Tulsa's Greenwood Neighborhood
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The Fight to Preserve Greenwood

The Fight to Preserve Greenwood
Caleb Gayle
© Decades of urban renewal including a highway cutting through the community have drastically changed .
When Brenda Nails-Alford received the letter informing her that her ancestors were survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, she had to reread it five times. The massacre was a two-day onslaught of racial violence that is believed to have killed hundreds of people and laid waste to the prosperous Black neighborhood of Greenwood which included a business district known as “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa, Nails-Alford’s hometown. She had never heard of it.
In 2003, a legal team sued the city of Tulsa, the Tulsa Police Department, and the state of Oklahoma on behalf of more than 300 of the massacre’s survivors and survivors’ descendants. After their letter reached Nails-Alford, she drove to Greenwood and walked up and down the streets, just like she had as a kid. Her memories suddenly felt haunte ....

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Amanda DeCort, one of Tulsa's most vocal advocates for historic preservation, will leave behind many successes and a few frustrations

âI thought, âTulsa is great,ââ DeCort remembers. âThen he took me downtown.â
The BOK Center was still three years from opening, and downtown remained largely abandoned after dark and on the weekends. The majestic Mayo Hotel was still vacant, and the art deco Skelly Building had recently been reduced to rubble.
âHistoric preservation was going to be a challenge in Tulsa,â she says. âBut I was up for a challenge.â
DeCort will leave Tulsa after meeting that challenge for 15 years, first as a historic preservation officer for the city of Tulsa and for the last five years as executive director of the Tulsa Foundation for Architecture. ....

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