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Black Wall Street was an enviable neighborhood to white and black people alike. Match this envy with the superiority complex of white people in the Jim Crow era and racial tensions rising post-World War I and the refusal of the police to turn over a Black man to a massive lynch mob and you get the night the Greenwood District burned. Hear the story of the destruction of the wealthiest Black enclave in the nation in the early 20th century.
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Black Wall Street was an enviable neighborhood to white and black people alike. Match this envy with the superiority complex of white people in the Jim Crow era and racial tensions rising post-World War I and the refusal of the police to turn over a Black man to a massive lynch mob and you get the night the Greenwood District burned. Hear the story of the destruction of the wealthiest Black enclave in the nation in the early 20th century.