Little Africa

"Little Africa" was the name; whites gave to the prosperous African-American Greenwood community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, later became known as "Black Wall Street." One of the most successful and wealthiest African-American communities in the United States during the early 20th Century, it was popularly known as America's " Black Wall Street " until the Tulsa Race Riot in 1921. Unfortunately, the riot completely destroyed the once thriving Greenwood community on June 1st of that year.



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