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| Black Wall Street (aka Little Africa) - Tuls, Oklahoma |
May 31, 1921.
Oklahoma. Tulsa, Oklahoma. Just a small area in the town some called Little Africa. Even more called it The Black Wall Street.
It was a section of town that housed Black lawyers, Black doctors, Black bankers . . . and Black banks.
It was a source of pride to live there, or to even boast they had relatives who lived there. It's destruction began 95 years ago today -- May 31, 1921 -- and it took only 24 hours and the worst riot in U. S. history to erase the Black Economic Mecca.
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