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London Joe Farley was the longtime business owner of Farley Cleaners and Laundry, a staple in Tulsa and the Greenwood District for decades.But before being hailed as north Tulsa s Greatest Businessman, the community he called home was destroyed.Farley s granddaughter, Brittani Hunter, told KOCO 5 that he was 3 years old when the Tulsa Race Massacre occurred. He said his family managed to get out before it happened.They came back a few days later to devastation, smoke, smoldering buildings and dead bodies on the ground. They had those images in their head for years, and I really think it lit a fire in them, Hunter said.That fire turned into action once Farley was an adult. Hunter said Farley returned to Greenwood after fighting in World War II to work at a dry cleaning business as part of the Black Wall Street rebuild.In 1952, Farley bought the business, taking over from his mentor and owning the business for 56 years. Whoever came into Farley s Cleaners, he was all about m ....
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