Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District
by Hannibal B. Johnson
Publication Date: Jan 27, 2014
List Price: $31.99
Format: Hardcover, 130 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781531668952
Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Parent Company: Arcadia Publishing
Description of Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District by Hannibal B. Johnson
In the early 1900s, an indomitable entrepreneurial spirit brought national renown to Tulsa’s historic African American community, the Greenwood District. This "Negro Wall Street" bustled with commercial activity. In 1921, jealously, land lust, and racism swelled in sectors of white Tulsa, and white rioters seized upon what some derogated as "Little Africa," leaving death and destruction in their wake. In an astounding resurrection, the community rose from the ashes of what was dubbed the Tulsa Race Riot with renewed vitality and splendor, peaking in the 1940s. In the succeeding decades, changed social and economic conditions sparked a prodigious downward spiral. Today’s Greenwood District bears little resemblance to the black business mecca of yore. Instead, it has become part of something larger: an anchor to a rejuvenated arts, entertainment, educational, and cultural hub abutting downtown Tulsa.
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