Black Wall Street was a wealthy and prosperous Black business district in Tulsa, Okla., in the early 1900s. A White mob carried out the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, burning over 1,400 homes and ...
Greenwood Rising in Tulsa, Oklahoma, honors Black Wall Street's history and resilience after the 1921 race massacre.
"Beautiful, bustling, and Black"—that was how author, attorney, and activist Hannibal B. Johnson described Tulsa, Oklahoma's Greenwood District in his book "Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance ...
Construction crews have moved into the next phase of work at Black Wall Street Square in Tulsa, a Habitat for Humanity housing development aimed at expanding homeownership in a historic area. The ...
From Birmingham to Oakland: We are mapping America’s once thriving yet forgotten Black business districts.
The Black Wall Street Rally is gaining national recognition after being nominated for a USA Today 10 Best Readers’ Choice Award, placing Tulsa’s historic Greenwood District in the national spotlight.