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Gurley, moved to Tulsa and bought 40 acres of land that he opted to only sell to Black settlers. In 1906, a wealthy African-American land-owner, named O.W. The area also saw a major uptick in Black settlers around that time, and leading up to Oklahoma's 1907 statehood, as land was readily available. Tulsa, in general, began to flourish around the turn of the 20th Century, thanks to a huge oil boom in Oklahoma. Here's a look at how Tulsa's Greenwood District grew to become a haven for Black entrepreneurs at the beginning of the 20th centuryВ - and how 24 hours of racist violence destroyed much of what thousands of Black residents had built there, only for that tragic event and the people it affected to be unjustly ignored by history, for the most part, for decades afterward.

schools over the past century, even in Oklahoma, where the racist incident was only added to statewide school curriculumsВ in February 2020. Historians say the history of 'Black Wall Street' and the massacre that occurred there (much like the Juneteenth holiday) have generally not been taught in U.S. Another fictional HBO show, 'Lovecraft Country,' also drew from the real-life massacre for a 2020 episode, further stoking the national conversation about an event that had once been seemingly ignored by history.

#BLACK WALL STREET THE GAME SERIES#

In fact, when a depiction of the massacre appeared in the opening scenes of 2019's 'Watchmen', a popular fictional HBO series that debuted in October and drew from the real-life events of 1921, many viewers reported that they initially believed they were witnessing fictional events. Still, for many Americans, the Jmassacre and the history of Tulsa's 'Black Wall Street' neighborhood represented a gap in their knowledge of American history, at least until recently. The incident, whichВ is estimated to have claimed the lives of as many as 300 people (the vast majority being Black), devastated a neighborhood that had grown over the previous 15 years to become one of the wealthiest enclaves for Black Americans in the country.

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