Black Wall Street was in Greenwood, suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma: 1906-1921. O.W. Gurley, a wealthy African-American from Arkansas, moved to Tulsa, purchased over 40 acres of land, and sold to other African-Americans in 1906. The community mobilized it’s resources and rebuilt the Greenwood area within five years of the race riot in spite of political efforts to prevent reconstruction.
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