(Avin C. Kurpnick/Library of Congress) RIGHT: The sun casts a golden light on downtown Tulsa last year near what's nicknamed Black Wall Street. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post) (Alvin C. Kurpnick Co.)The sun casts a golden light on downtown Tulsa last year near what's nicknamed Black Wall Street. Listen (0:00:47) Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors Testify (N/A)(Audio provided by the National Museum of African American History and Culture)No one was ever held accountable for the lives lost or the property destroyed. “Booker T. Washington called it 'Negro Wall Street.’ We call it ‘Black Wall Street.’ Black Wall Street was not just about wealth,” Gardullo said. Greenwood before the massacre in 1921 was one of the most prosperous Black communities in the country.

Source: Washington Post May 28, 2021 11:03 UTC