Robin Walker > Quotes

“In 1905 Blacks began to buy land on Greenwood Avenue. This road evolved into the centre of ‘Black Wall Street.”
― Robin Walker, The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street

“Spaulding, and Dr Aaron Moore, founders of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, Durham, North Carolina (founded 1898).”
― Robin Walker, The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street

“The key issue seemed to be control over the oil boom across Oklahoma. The White power structure did not want this oil boom being controlled by Blacks or Native Americans.”
― Robin Walker, The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street

“Ralph Ellison said that: “many of the descendents of freed slaves ... considered it a territory of hope, and a place where they could create their own opportunities ... [F]or Negroes it had a traditional association with freedom which had entered their folklore.” Moreover, Oklahoma “lacked the intensities of custom, tradition and manners which ‘colored’ the institutions of the Old South.”   In”
― Robin Walker, The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street

“To all Ethiopians – Black men at home and abroad who desire to live on equality with all men: Know the truth and the truth will make you free. Then, take your place in the ranks of all men – Brown, Yellow, White and Black. This is your God-given Right. Nothing more, nothing less. A Race without the knowledge of its history is like a tree without roots. It is the inspiring influence of that knowledge which makes men want to go forward. The whole future of man is bound up in the doings of the past. Know it well and no one will be able to deceive or make you afraid. Your historic records prove that you are the greatest benefactors of the whole human race; this knowledge should encourage you and cause you to put the mighty force within you to work. Then no man will have need to call you to labour. Come! Beloved, take up your cross, take your place in the ranks once more, you are delaying the caravan.”
― Robin Walker, If you want to learn Early African History START HERE