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.
yeah, i love that. when they want to talk about black folks, right. instead of saying black folks live over here, that s the urban area, that s urban music. just call things as they are. to whites the words urban renewal have a promising hopeful sound, but to blacks they mean move out. many of the thousands men, women and children have been forced out in the name of some progress yet to come. so urban renewell was coming through telling you all those houses you re living we have a better use, as they say a greater use for this land. and they tell you we re going to renew your community, this is going to be better than you left it. they moved us out of our houses for the greater good. we were dislocated from our home. and when i tell you there s still a big space at 14th, 15th noorgt greenwood, nothing was