Black businesses clustered on a strip of land that would become Greenwood in 1905.
“Black Wall Street,” as the town would be known, was thriving.
But on May 31, 1921, the Tulsa Tribune reported that a black man, Dick Rowland, attempted to rape a white woman, Sarah Page.
Defense of white female virtue was the expressed motivation for the collective racial violence.
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Join us as the writers and producer of the film project “Defending Black Wall Street: ‘The Movie,'” discuss their project and its historical significance.
