Black Wallstreet

We are discussing the Tulsa, Oklahoma massacre of a black community known as “Black Wall Street", (the north (black) side of the tracks) which whites called "niggertown". Post slavery, black people in the area were forced to live in this part of town due to segregation, here they created a succesful area that included grocery stores, hotels, shopping boutiques, bars, schools, and blustering community. They started creating wealth for themselves and their families by helping one another build businesses. Until one fateful day when a 19yo black boy walked into the Drexel Building with permission and got on an elevator with a 16 yo white girl; the incidents that unfolded after were horrific forms of destruction and murder.