Now 100 years later, there is a renewed push to rebuild the Black Wall Street, but the question is how.
Soul of a Nation” unearths buried secrets 100 years after as many as 300 people lost their lives.A century ago, the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, buzzed with Black entrepreneurship, creating a thriving Black middle class unlike anywhere else in the U.S. at the time.
But the thriving neighborhood was shattered in 1921 by a mob of white vigilantes, apoplectic over trumped-up charges of rape against a Black resident and resentment of well-to-do Black citizens. Three hundred people were killed, thousands were wounded and approximately 35 acres of commercial and residential property within the district were destroyed
"I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street. I still smell smoke and see fire," 107-year-old Viola FletcherTwo armed men walk away from burning buildings as others walk in the opposite direction during the Tulsa Race Massacre in Tulsa, Okla., June 1, 1921.
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