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Black Wall Street • Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921 Full Documentary "We will NEVER FORGET"
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‘The foundation of the wealth': Why Black Wall Street boomed
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — In a century-old family story about a teenage aunt who liked to drive her luxury car down the trolley tracks of Tulsa, Kristi Williams still savors a tiny, lingering taste of how different life could have been for all Black Americans after slavery.
On Monday, Tulsans commemorated the 100th anniversary of a two-day assault by armed white men on Tulsa’s prosperous Black community of Greenwood, known around the country as Black Wall Street, calling attention to an era of deadly mob assaults on Black communities that official history long suppressed.
But Williams, and other descendants of the freed Black people enslaved by Native American nations who once owned much of the land under Tulsa, say there’s another part of Black Wall Street’s history that more Americans need to know about.
It’s one that has important lessons for contemporary racial issues in the United States, including the long debated matter of reparations, descendants and historians say.
That bit of the story: where much of the seed money that made Black Wall Street boom came from....
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