1921 Tulsa Race Riot
I've been in Tulsa, Oklahoma for the last month getting teacher training and teaching summer school. One of the things I've been able to do is get to know Tulsa and learn about it's history. That is when I found out about a crucial part of history that has been hidden, denied to me by our white centric history books and media. The 1921 Greenwood race riots, the biggest race riot in American history. In the earlier part of the 1900's Greenwood was the Black Wall street. A vibrant and financially powerful community that boasted having two newspapers, more than have a dozen hotels, two theaters, 15 churches and dozens of restaurants and grocery stores- not to mention the thousands and thousands of homes all black owned. This was a time when segregation ruled the land, black folks made their own piece of the state, they forged their way and created a place of their own. It was amazing for me to know what these folks accomplished in such difficult moment in history and it...