Tulsa’s Greenwood District: a shining city on a hill; a promise of economic and social freedom. Black Wall Street — one of the wealthiest Black districts in the country — attracted Black people from all across the nation to live out their entrepreneurial dreams. But amid these dreams being realized was the cruel reality of the Jim Crow South, the second rise of the Ku Klux Klan, and lynching culture that terrorized Black residents’ day-to-day lives.

Chapter 1: Built

Tulsa's Greenwood community has long been defined by the two worst days in its history: May 31 and June 1, 1921 — otherwise known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. But the story of Greenwood didn’t start with the race massacre, and it didn’t end with it, either.<br />From The OU Daily, Destination: Greenwood is an exploration of Greenwood from its inception to present-day, documenting its evolution from Black Wall Street to ashes, the devastation of urban renewal, and the road to repairing a century of injustice.

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Tulsa's Greenwood community has long been defined by the two worst days in its history: May 31 and June 1, 1921 — otherwise known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. But the story of Greenwood didn’t start with the race massacre, and it didn’t end with it, either.From The OU Daily, Destination: Greenwood is an exploration of Greenwood from its inception to present-day, documenting its evolution from Black Wall Street to ashes, the devastation of urban renewal, and the road to repairing a century of injustice.

Tulsa's Greenwood community has long been defined by the two worst days in its history: May 31 and June 1, 1921 — otherwise known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. But the story of Greenwood didn’t start with the race massacre, and it didn’t end with it, either.<br>From The OU Daily, Destination: Greenwood is an exploration of Greenwood from its inception to present-day, documenting its evolution from Black Wall Street to ashes, the devastation of urban renewal, and the road to repairing a century of injustice.

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