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.
in my pocket i go down on greenwood and i get a haircut they give me the latest scoop, i found out what s going on. what is up on greenwood now? p s barbershop, there is a legacy of my father getting his hair cut here. my son got his first haircut right here. how long has there been a barbershop in greenwood? the first barbershop i worked for was called nim s barbershop, it was in the 1100 block of north greenwood, that was in 1963. they talk about greenwood, now, one block, but it was all the way down from lansing, back to martin luther king drive today. 9021, 1921, greenwood was