Ive been hearing about a community called black wallstreet & would like more info on it! (I am not talking about the rapper the game & his affiliates)
Posted on December 25, 2011.
Ive been hearing about a community called black wallstreet & would like more info on it! (I am not talking about the rapper the game & his affiliates)
BLACK WALLSTREET
Please pass this on to the Iota Family. It’s an important part of history that every Black person should know, if they don’t know already.
Ron Wallace: co-author of Black Wallstreet: A Lost Dream Chronicles a little-known chapter of African-American History in Oklahoma as told to Ronald E. Childs. If anyone truly believes that the last April attack on the federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was the most tragic bombing ever to take place on United States soil, as the media has been widely reporting, they’re wrong-plain and simple. That’s because an even deadlier bomb occurred in that same state nearly 75 years ago.
Many people in high places would like to forget that it ever happened. Searching under the heading of “riots,” “Oklahoma” and “Tulsa” in current editions of the World Book Encyclopedia, there is conspicuously no mention whatsoever of the Tulsa race riot of 1921, and this omission is by no means a surprise, or a rare case. The fact is, one would also be hard-pressed to find documentation of the incident, let alone an accurate accounting of it, in any other “scholarly” reference or American history book.
That’s precisely the point that noted author, publisher and orator Ron Wallace, a Tulsa native, sought to make nearly five years ago when he began researching this riot, one of the worst incidents of violence ever visited upon people of African descent. Ultimately joined on the project by colleague Jay Jay Wilson of Los Angeles, the duo found and compiled indisputable evidence of what they now describe as “A Black Holocaust in America.”
The date was June 1, 1921, when “Black Wallstreet,” the name fittingly given to one of the most affluent all-black communities in America, was bombed from the air and burned to the ground by mobs of envious whites. In a period spanning fewer than 12 hours, a once thriving 36-black business district in northern Tulsa lay smoldering-A model community destroyed, and a major Africa-American economic movement resoundingly defused.
The night’s carnage left some 3,000 African Americans dead, and over 600 successful businesses lost. Among these were 21 churches, 21 restaurants, 30 grocery stores and two movie theaters, plus a hospital, a bank, a post office, libraries, schools, law offices, a half-dozen private airplanes and even a bus system. As could be expected, the impetus behind it all was the infamous Ku Klux Klan, working in consort with ranking city officials, and many other sympathizers. In their self-published book, Black Wallstreet: A lost Dream, and its companion video documentary, Black Wallstreet: A Black Holocaust in America!, the authors have chronicled for the very first time in the words of area historians and elderly survivors what really happened there on
The Black Wall Street may refer to:
Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma, the area of northeast Oklahoma around Tulsa, home to several prominent black businessmen
Jackson Ward, a thriving African-American business community in Richmond, Virginia
Parrish Street, in Durham, North Carolina, an area of successful black-owned businesses
The Black Wall Street Records, a record label
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“The Black Wall Street” was a name for Durham, North Carolina, in the early 20th century. That city was the home to many African-American-owned financian institutions, including N.C.Mutual Life Insurance, the largest black-owned financial institution in the U.S. Many of the corporations established there no longer exist, but NC Mutual, and Mechanics and Farmers Bank, still do and are thriving.