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The name "The Black Wall Street" is adopted from the historical Black community of Tulsa Oklahoma. The date was June 1, 1921 when "Black Wallstreet," the name fittingly given to one the most affluent all-black communities in America, was bombed from the air and burned to the ground. In a period spanning fewer than 12 hours, a once thriving 36-black-business district in northern Tulsa lay smoldering. A model community destroyed, and a major Black economic movement resoundingly defused. The night's carnage is said to have left some 3,000 African Americans dead, and over 600 successfull businesses lost. Amongh these were 21 churches, 21 restaurants, 30 grocery stores and two movie theaters, plus a hospital, a bank, a post office, libraries, schools, law offices, a half-doezen private airplanes and even a bus system. Black wallstreet was destroyed and its existance was erased from history...
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