Tulsa: The Attack on Black Wall Street
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Black Presence in Oklahoma
The black presence in oklahoma generally precedes tulsas ascendants as the oil capital of the world. The so called five civilized tribes were forced out of their homelands in the 18 thirties and 18 fortis an indian removal. Some of those people, after the civil war, received land allotments. Land was an accession to wealth. If some of that wealth found its place among people who would migrate into tulsus greenwood strict, and certainly if it supported businesses that proliferated in the early part of the twentieth century.
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