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What Was Your Town's Black Wall Street?
Let's widen the lens beyond Greenwood
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Juneteenth: A Greenwood Story
How the neighborhood celebrated the holiday in the age of Jim Crow
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The Game Is the Game
A popular gambling pastime known as the policy wheel dominated the economy of Depression-era Greenwood. Because it was criminalized, it also spawned…
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Women's Work
When the Great Depression gripped Tulsa in the early 1930’s, it squeezed black women the hardest
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#027: The Myth of an Impervious People
In 1925 Greenwood welcomed the nation's leading black entrepreneurs for a lavish convention to prove that the massacre had not destroyed their spirit.
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The Story of Black Wall Street: How They Rebuilt
Through a mixture of hubris and active malice, Tulsa city leaders undermined the rebuilding of Greenwood. Black people brought the neighborhood back…
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The Story of Black Wall Street: Trust in the Law
The legal battles over who should pay for the destruction of Greenwood, criminally and financially, began before the smoke had cleared
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The Story of Black Wall Street: A Conspiracy in Plain Sight
Tulsa’s white leaders orchestrated a concerted effort to force black residents out of Greenwood. The only question is whether this plan was initiated…
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The Story of Black Wall Street: 'Get a Gun and Get Busy'
Local police and the National Guard failed to protect Greenwood from burning during the 1921 race massacre. In fact, their actions likely encouraged its…
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The Story of Black Wall Street: A Way With Words
Black-owned media outlets were burned to the ground in the Tulsa Race Massacre. White outlets got the chance to write--and then almost erase--the first…
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The Unfinished Story of Dick Rowland
For nearly a century, narratives about the massacre have revolved around a mysterious shoe shine boy and an even more elusive elevator operator.
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The Story of Black Wall Street #015: Summers of Our Discontent
Before Greenwood burned, large-scale racial terror attacks had already become an American pastime
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