black entrepreneurship. people call it the black wall street. greenwood was like putting harlem, bourbon street, and chocolate city all in one place. but white tulsans talked about greenwood as little africa or niggerland. 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 have tulsans have an undetermined number who were murdered. it should not have taken 99 years. anybody who thinks this crime scene won t speak doesn t have the ears to hear. the ancestors are awake and the earth is shaking. i came to tulsa when i was in the sixth grade. so that s been, i don t know how many years. my mother is from oklahoma. there was a strong black community in tulsa called greenwood. these people were the core of black entrepreneurship. and they would help you g
it doesn t always work this way right after holiday weekend but it s right after a holiday weekend and the news is on full blast today. sometimes it s sort of a slower on ramp back into the news but not today. president biden today was in tulsa, oklahoma, touring the greenwood district. the prosperous self sufficient african american neighborhood in tulsa that 100 years ago this week was beset by a white mob as the president said today. it was not a riot, it was a massacre. thousands of homes and businesses not only looted but burned to the ground. whole blocks of homes and businesses and churches in newspapers and restaurants destroyed by a white mob and that not only shot black tulsans in the street, telling innumerable people literally enumerated people. the total death toll not known to this day from the tulsa race massacre. but then not only shot people in the street, they literally dropped a homemade firebombs on the greenwood neighborhood from private aircraft. it was
people call it the black wall street. wood home run greenwood was like this them all in one place. but whites talk about greenwood as little africa or niggerland. tulsa was a powder keg. meaning only something can set the community alight. 100, 300 people, most of them black, were killed. today we call it a massacre. they were hate ing to get rid o the bodies by dumping it in mass graves around the city. we tulsians the number it murdered, should not have taken 99 years. anybody who thinks this crime scene is not going to speak doesn t have the ears to hear. the ancestors are awake and the earth is shaking. i came to tulsa when i was in the sixth grade. so that s been, whoo, i don t know how many years. my mother is from oklahoma. that was a strong black community in tulsa called greenwood. these people were the core of black entrepreneurship. they will help you get your business started. people call it the black wall street. and when you read the editorials, they
in the 1920s, there was a strong black community here in tulsa called greenwood. these people were the core of black entrepreneurship. people call it the black wall street. greenwood was like putting harlem, bourbon street, and chocolate city all in one place. but white tulsans talked about greenwood as little africa or [bleep] 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 have tulsans of an undetermined number who were murdered. it should not have taken 99 years. anybody who thinks that this crime scene is not going to speak doesn t have the ears to hear. the ancestors are awake and the earth is shaking. i came to tulsa when i was in the sixth grade. so that s been, whew, i don t know how many years. my mother is from oklahoma. ther
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.