Before its population moved to the effectively segregated northern parts
of the city, Black Tulsa’s home was Greenwood, a district some called
Black Wall Street. The idea was something of a fantasy — this was no
financial center with mansions. Many blocks lacked paved streets,
sewage, and running water. But it was the wealthiest Black community in
the United States, and it teemed with Black-owned businesses and solid
middle-class homes even in the midst of Jim Crow. It had civic
achievements to be proud of — prominent churches, the largest
Black-owned hotel in the United States, a respected high school that is
still one of the educational jewels of the city. It was a place of Black
independence, with wages and liberties that were wonderous by the
standard of poor Black people who emigrated from the Old South looking
for prosperity in the Oil Capital of the World, a hub for a region where
petroleum was known to collect in pools on the ground.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/greenwood-at-100/
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