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