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Centered along busy Greenwood Avenue,Tulsa’s African-American commercial district was a bonafide American success story. Home to literally dozens of black-owned and operated businesses in the days before the riot, “Deep Greenwood” could also lay claim to a public library, a postal substation, a Y.M.C.A. branch, and the offices of two newspapers (Courtesy Don Ross).

Tulsa, Oklahoma remains a remarkable place of immense black historical perspective. It was here that the most affluent African-American community lived with their own doctors, lawyers and over 600 businesses; and made such a success of their town that it has now become known as the “Black Wall Street“, but in May and June 1921, this community was destroyed in violent race riots sparked by jealousy and sexual racial animosities.

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