In the early 1920’s, Tulsa OK, the Greenwood area was deemed, Black Wall St.
Tensions arose when the Tulsa newspaper reported that a black man had raped a white woman.
300 African Americans were killed and the city (35 city blocks) was essentially burned to the ground. Not a single white person was ever prosecuted.
Terrorism was how blacks were kept in their places.
Listen to a gruesome retelling of a lynching in this video.
