Black Wall Street
by A.man.I
How many of you have heard of Black Wall Street? It was an affluent, thriving Black community made up of doctors, business owners, and other well-to-do professionals in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This piece of American history has been all but forgotten, and left out of history books. So has the story of the massacre that occured on Memorial Day, May 20 in 1921.
Dr. Sybil C. Mitchell writes in the Chicago Defender,
For the past 75 years, the riot had remained Tulsa's shameful, unspeakable secret....
The savage massacre of 'Black Wall Street' in Tulsa, OK, was more heartless than any blood-thirsty lynching in the South, and more ruthless than the random slaughter of thousands in race riots of the North.
It's a horrible story of domestic terrorism, and I've only recently learned about the story.
READ ABOUT IT HERE
Labels: black history
posted by A.man.I aka The Urban Reporter @ 6:42 PM
5 comments
5 Comments:
I had no idea, thanks for educating me!
Great blog, Great Mission and a even Greater Man. Keep up the method, you are being seen all over the universe↑
Thanks for posting this - I had not heard of Black Wall Street. Quite horrifying
This was more information on this moment than anything else that I came across. Good deal.
I've read alot of things on the internet, but the story of Black Wall Street is the only one that brought tears to my eyes. My people... lets get it!
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