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The Black Wall Street Times was founded in 2017 by Nehemiah Frank. [1] The paper is named after the historically Black Greenwood District, Tulsa, which is also known as "Black Wall Street." [2] According to NPR, the paper focuses on racial equity issues in Tulsa and seeks to hold public officials accountable. [3]
The violence took place in Tulsa, Okla., on May 31 and June 1, 1921 when a White mob descended on the city’s thriving Greenwood business district, known as “Black Wall Street,” burning 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 ...
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 Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, [25] was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist [26] [27] massacre [28] 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, [29] attacked ...
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 Black Wall Street may refer to: Greenwood District, Tulsa, Oklahoma, a neighborhood containing many African-American businesses in the early 20th Century Tulsa race massacre of 1921, in which a white mob destroyed much of Greenwood; Jackson Ward, a thriving African-American business community in Richmond, Virginia
The Black Wall Street Chamber of Commerce “serves as an advocate to unify, promote and empower the African American community through entrepreneurship, programming, economic development ...