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Release. May 31, 2021. (2021-05-31) Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street is a 2021 American documentary film, directed and produced by Salima Koroma. LeBron James serves as an executive producer under his SpringHill Entertainment banner. The film follows the cultural renaissance existing in the Tulsa, Oklahoma district, and investigates ...
Greenwood is a historic freedom colony in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As one of the most prominent concentrations of African-American businesses in the United States during the early 20th century, it was popularly known as America's "Black Wall Street". It was burned to the ground in the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, in which a local white mob gathered and ...
The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, [12] was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist [13] [14] massacre [15] that took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of whom had been appointed as deputies and armed by city government officials, [16] attacked black residents and destroyed homes and ...
A U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday set a path forward to establish Black Wall Street as a national monument more than 100 years after the Tulsa Race Massacre. Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla ...
The Greenwood District, also known as Black Wall Street, could be a national monument, more than a century after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
The SpringHill Company and CNN Films will produce "Dreamland: The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street," a documentary examining the violent events of late May and June 1921 in Tulsa, Okla., that ...
The attackers, backed by government officials, burned and destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the neighborhood—at the time one of the wealthiest Black communities in the United States, colloquially known as "Black Wall Street". Black Birds in the Sky not only discusses the events of the Tulsa race massacre but also explores the thriving ...
Los Angeles, California, U.S. Occupation (s) Businessman and real-estate developer. Known for. Greenwood District, Tulsa, aka "Black Wall Street". O. W. Gurley (December 25, 1867 – August 6, 1935) was once one of the wealthiest Black men and a founder of the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as "Black Wall Street". [1][2]