Black Wall Street (1992) | A Black Holocaust In America

For three and a half years, authors, producers, editors, Ron Wallace and JJ Wilson have gone underground in Tulsa, Oklahoma, tirelessly researching, researching and documenting one of the most important historical discoveries ever brought to the forefront of American history. or African American. They have written and published a new book called Black Wall Street based on real historical events about a small, very prosperous and very sophisticated African American community that existed in Tulsa Oklahoma at the beginning of the century, currently American history instills in the minds of our young people of all races than African Americans have no history other than slavery or civil rights.

This rich and very vital history of Black Wall Street will instill instant pride. Multicultural awareness improves self-esteem and will build strong character in our youth. Another very important point must be noted. that when young people of other nationalities see the documented historical economic achievements of these African Americans on

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Wall Street, they will inevitably begin to see them from another perspective, in hopes of reducing the ugliness of racism so prevalent in today's society. 1921, one of the most devastating massacres in history. The history of the US took place, it was completely burned and scorched in just a 12 hour period, over 1300 businesses and homes were destroyed and completely ruined, 10,000 people were left homeless overnight and into the day of Today no one knows how many people really died. 500 to 1,500 men, women and children, both white and

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, this Cessna, the mass appeal of human life, was a very careful pact by the top officials of the city of black Wall Street, was destroyed, a major economic movement which would have affected all black communities and America was crushed.

The completely stopped black Wall Street was the most prosperous and prosperous black community in America in these times they defined the word nepotism in its ultimate form these highly organized blacks work together in the same way that Jews, Japanese and Iranians work together in these black days and times.

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s people so prosperous that all white men will intersect with the black community develop more cash sons to keep their businesses afloat this very powerful black movement would have had a social and economic effect on blacks all over the United States, but 3,000 people with Clanton cards wouldn't let that happen, what you are about to witness will shock you, chances are it will affect you very deeply no matter what race, creed or color you are and maybe this movie will make us all look up. second time to our fellow men. man and not hate him because of the color of his skin.

This is a true account of the worst race riot in the history of the United States. It's not a pretty story and it's not told for its shock value to reopen any wounds. This material is presented because it happened 70 years ago to many generations whose story is relevant to this contemporary generation the true events were completely covered up and hidden from the American public the date was June 2, 1921 the location after the bombing the Tulsa World headline said dead estimated at 100 City one of the nation's bloodiest racial riots subsided. Non-military history had begun. The sport of bidding began on Monday, May 30, 1921.

Here's the story. Oh, there sure aren't any movies that last long. In the early 20th century, Archer Street was intentionally designed to divide. the cities north of the south side of Tulsa blacks were forced to stay on the north side and whites enjoyed their separatism on the south side laws were passed to ensure that whites and blacks remained separate from coast to coast of discrimination out of hate and arrogance and Those were probably the underlying reasons why organizations like the Ku Klux Klan demonstrated, but the riot cannot be blamed on one, two or three specific incidents, the environment is what caused it.

It should be noted that in 1921 the majority of the Oklahoma legislature were members of the Klan, almost all city and county officials in Tulsa County, Oklahoma were elected with the support of the Klan or were members of the Klan. In those days, the Klan paraded through downtown Tulsa wearing their white sheets and their little pointy hats that fit their pointies. Little heads that would last four to five hours now visualize the number of people who participated in a parade that would last four to five hours and all these people came from Tulsa, well, you have a parade and tell us a lot of people come. from other counties, but you also have to remember that in 1925 there were five million card-carrying Ku Klux Klan members in this country, so what was happening in Tulsa was probably the same thing that was happening in many other cities and, if the trip If it hadn't happened in Tulsa, it probably would have happened somewhere else.

The difference between Tulsa and some other city is that we know how bad it got and where we've gone since has been a mark of our progress as I sit here, I wonder. With blacks fighting for equal rights and integration in other parts of the United States at the time, was it really a good idea for blacks living in Greenwood to integrate? What happened in 1921 was not so much what happened on the black side but what happened on the white side of town because there were a lot of veterans coming back from Bellow Wood and Chateau-Thierry and they had gone into the woods and couldn't find work and many of them were uneducated white people of low economic class and when they returned To Towson, the Klan took advantage of the resentment they had towards those prosperous black businessmen and the Klan did the same with them, but the Nazis did in Germany in 1933.

In fact, it's kind of interesting. You can make an analogy here that is historically profound. I had a microcosmic experience with the Nazis. The Nazis in Germany in 1933 blamed the Jews and persecuted them and segregated the Jews and created ghettos for the Jews and that's how they built their power, but they built their power on the disenfranchised and the disenchanted Germans, well, the Nazis took over an entire country, the Ku Klux Klan, in this case, largely took over an entire city and, in fact, to some extent, the entire state and perhaps the region of the country in which They were strong, but they played into the hate, fear, envy and jealousy of many of these whites who felt that the country owed them something because they had fought in World War I and here you have the blacks who possibly did not fight in World War I and they were very prosperous. and you had the seeds for that type of conflict economically, now socially you had a different situation.

Oklahoma is a very unique state in the sense that it is the only state in the Union that was settled the way it was, this was Indian Territory. Even a southern state in the Civil War wasn't even a northern state, it was a state that both sides fought over. In fact, 69 battles were fought in Oklahoma, largely between northern and southern Indians, but when the state became settled it was settled by overland settlers. Benjamin Harrison opened up parts of the state and people just bulldozed this land and brought it to parts now. Why is that significant in terms of the journey?

It is significant because a large number of those people who made those overland journeys were Southerners whose farms, lands and plantations had been burned by Sherman and the Union Army when they came through the South, they had no homes left, so they came West. and when they made those cross-country journeys, they brought with them Southern culture as a As a result, what we have here in Oklahoma is a microcosm of the United States. The northern half of the state is more metropolitan, in fact, more politically Republican. The northern half of the state was settled by farmers from Kansas, which was largely Union Territory.

The southern half of the state. The state was largely settled by people from southern Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and the state is pretty much divided that way in terms of politics, economics, and social development, but when you add that extra economic jealousy and envy, The Ku Klux Klan had a breeding ground and that's why they were able to hold parades that lasted four to five hours straight. There were a lot of people who were more than willing to hate black people because they represented something they wish they had little of. Africa was possibly the most prosperous area that Black people had ever collectively developed anywhere in the world.

Oklahoma was considered one of the cleanest states in the nation and cherished its reputation for being called God's Own Country or America's Bible Belt. Nothing could be further from the truth, just as our 4 said my My husband predicted this that Sunday night at church, the days when we had BTUs that they bought, they cut down a mountain and we don't want him to be for you, but made a public statement and told him that this was going to happen, but we didn't know that I hadn't seen any signs, but after church and after we went home, several young men and stuff, you know, they were shocked and all we had was a good and beloved cop at the time, but we called them more hood knife antibiotics. there trying to corner them because the problem was their horizon and we didn't even know that with this black man and it's them and the babies that show up, they didn't go to the police station in Ireland and he was already done riding this big old horse and I was telling you that you knew it wasn't going to be anything like that, but they had weapons and everything and some of them came to live on the

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which is where we lived and running next to that man, take your weapons, go get your It's a very pleasant feeling living in a role model community;

In other words, you could see people doing things at all levels that looked like you, so you could set your sights anywhere you wanted and you felt safe. I really don't remember seeing it. any other cultural group except Native Americans and Mexicans, right, I don't remember ever seeing them, you didn't have much interaction with white people, so no, absolutely not, but your dad did, yes, yes, I told myself that it was okay and that They would come to the store to sell the product properly and that was the extent of it pretty much had to do with the white community people always talked about the problems that existed well my mother talked about religion sometimes because my mother had been raised. in the Episcopal Church and when she came to Muskogee to teach they told her that she could come to church but that she could not take communion and that was outrageous for her because she was born in Brownsville Texas and they allowed her to do community work.

Sure, she immediately joined the African Methodist Episcopal Church of African America, which was all black mm-hmm and we knew it because my mother had told us about that incident, so we knew there was friction somewhere, but we never experienced it Weren't there people working? in the neighborhood there was a Brickyard right across the

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, there were a lot of rights that worked in the Brickyard across from our house, but they were milkmen that ran Gray's, you know, with a horse, etc., and so on, there were five because. Did you know that if there was a fire, they didn't put it out?

Of course, they didn't have what they have now, so we saw them and there was a little train that came on their train from Sand Springs that came every day. They were right, but there was no friction, but you loved it. I'm sure things happen, but they didn't happen to us. What you see here is the very famous Mount Zion Baptist Church, a congregation that survived the 1921 riots and managed to rebuild. the exact same place where it was bombed and completely destroyed exactly 70 years ago in 1921 the man's word was his bond measured a man's manhood by how much he kept his word the congregation of Mount Zion Baptist Church stays in my mind because The year Before the riot, a black congregation took out a 20-year mortgage and built this new church and the Klan burned it to the ground, but instead of running out of their mortgage instead of telling the bank, you're just going to have to. take your losses that congregation took out another 20 year mortgage and paid both mortgages simultaneously that's the character there were other heroes too white in the south part of the city they had black employees and those employees had become almost extensions of their family in In fact , many Tulsans were raised by black domestic servants and when the riot broke out many of those families hid those blacks in their basement at great risk to themselves due to the weather.

Did you ever find out that a white man had hidden a black man in his basement? The family would have been persecuted if they had not been flogged. Probably the two most unique heroes of the trip were the sheriff of Tulsa County and the black deputy sheriff of Tulsa County, Willard McCullough, the sheriff of Tulsa County at the time and was the only sheriff in the entire state that had black deputies , hisChief black deputy was Barney Cleaver and you have to keep in mind that when that law broke out around the Tulsa County Courthouse there were no more than a dozen deputies in that building and Willard McCullough was on the south steps of the Tulsa County Courthouse.

Barney Cleaver stood on the north steps of the county courthouse and told a black cloud that they wanted to free Dick Rowland. Well, you put yourself in the position of a white county sheriff in a southern state in 1921 in front of several thousand members of the Ku Klux Klan and you have nothing else, maybe a dozen deputies to back you up and Barney Flavors on the side north of the court tells you. them a black cloud the same I don't know much about Barney Cleaver Willard McCulloch before since that, but I can tell you this on May 31, 1921, maybe they earned the right to become world-class police officers, kind of a fluke, which What happened was that my father owned the moles, they were safe and everything in the store was destroyed, but he was One day, down there in bad weather, he kicked the safe and it seemed fine, so he worked on it. the combination and opened it and everything was intact and since it was the only safe in the neighborhood, it was so safe that many people lived by various means who were not me, not even a mentally ill person, used to bring their money to the pop to be so he and they would always put his name on a piece of paper and he would go and give everyone their money back and they would say, oh, you.

I don't want to say that it still works well and there were quite a few people who had left his money, it was bad, right, it was safe and then he had a little bit of his own money and it was okay, he had some bonuses. and then those were fine and that's what he used to tour the united states with mr. Grady, the secretary of why they went to black churches in Washington, played sailing races like that to tell people what had happened because the Scripps Howard newspapers had decided to keep it a secret so they wouldn't come out and tell the story, but There were only two black churches, however, yes, yes, so it takes until now to let this be known to the general people and that's really what happened.

Scripps, she and her sisters were so powerful that they had people following mr. Gregg and Dad when they went on the speaking tour and I guess they probably would have done something to them, but they were smart enough to read the quotes when they got to the place where they described all these dastardly things that had happened, they would. quoting what someone had written in a magazine or newspaper instead of telling it as a first-person story, so that those who you know, who preceded the FBI in those days couldn't say their incitement to the riots because they were quoting a newspaper, well, he told the lady one week that he performed and I said no, I don't want to go, I don't want him to say yes, you have to go, so you remember he had told people that he could hardly get me out . of the house, so I helped him a little bit about it, but I had to leave and sell my barefoot sandals and I had a bag on my head and he said let's go, we can't stay here, he said we have to keep moving, so he He came out and then went to preach to the people, he saw that we were very densely settled in the streets on both sides and all the houses were burned and my side when I am on this side on that side but to house my house and enough for everyone.

The rest burned me. I see all those other people having the opportunity that they have. They would stick fried to the house and I wanted it to be burning and people were dragging some of them running and my husband told me not to run, so I walked. and stay out in the open and where they will see you and then, when no one gets shot, you will know what happened to our father and our brother. You see, they don't care to know when you went home, no, and it's just the ladies. Yes the children and the things were very upset, disturbed and what bothered me the most was but I had seen them set fire to my dolls' clothes and I thought it was the last straw, the dolls were hanging on the clothesline because the lady I used to help us had washed all the clothes my grandmother was an excellent seamstress and had made the doll all kinds of good things and then when she saw them she took a torch and set them on fire, you know, on the line, so she said yes, I I mean children.

They know how to appreciate their possessions and a child never needs to see any hate, yes, true, the Klan was extraordinarily powerful in Tulsa in 1921, but in fact it was too extraordinarily powerful throughout Oklahoma during the 1920s in Oklahoma and it convicted two governors supposedly, of course. on other charges, but it was an open secret that one of the main reasons they were charged and convicted was that they were a former territorial majority, the Oklahoma Legislature or Klansmen were supported by the Klan, but Oklahoma It was not an unusual state throughout the country. that kind of influence on them, but in Tulsa County itself there was a rather unique situation that developed in the late teens, the Glanville oil field was roaring, just west of Tulsa County, an enormous amount of money was poured into this city and the whites who were the big Oilmen lived on the east side of the Arkansas River.

The thugs who worked on the platform lived on the west side. Well, there wasn't enough housing on the west side, so a lot of the bullies would come to the east side and live in boarding houses. On 12-hour shifts, a lot of people said that was due to the housing shortage, a lot of it had to do with the work cycle of a thug on a platform. His thugs worked 12-hour shifts on platforms. The point here is that a lot of the money that was invested in Tulsa and that helped make Tulsa the beautiful city it became was also invested in the Ku Klux Klan and the Klan became extraordinarily well funded with that solid funding that they received Of those oral men who sympathized with the Klan and who, in fact, were effectively manipulating the lower and increasingly broad economic classes for their own benefit, the Klan in Tulsa had a lot of money to do many things that other Klan flaperons did not have. that kind of support to do, for example, they had a building at the headquarters here in Tulsa was called Beno Hall now, what did Beno mean not being Jewish, not being Catholic?

I think it's ironic that bino Hall eventually evolved into a pig barn that not only is lynching but there are other forms of persecution as well. The Ku Klux Klan was very important in providing character guidance, attitude adjustment, and behavior modification to anyone they disagreed with, not only including blacks but also whites who they considered violated their standards. . It wasn't unusual that a white person, for example, might have been going. his wife to be taken out of their house one night and tied to a tree and whipped by a man dressed in sheets, many blacks, however, were lynched, they were lynched by organizations of this type, it is not only the Ku Klux Klan but also the Knights of the White Camellia.

There were all kinds of small, super-secret organizations that called themselves vigilantes; in fact, the Department of Justice itself created the American Protective League during World War I and operated it under the FBI, which at the time was not the FBI we know. today it was a politicized FBI, but the American Protective League was largely a volunteer organization, white male civilians, designed to ferret out any individuals of Germanic descent in Tulsa County and observe them to see if they engaged in any espionage or pro-government activities. of Kyser during the First World War. The American Protective League was formally disbanded after World War I, but that will give you an idea of ​​the kind of mentality that existed then, but to answer your question, yes, there were lynchings, and to give you an example, several weeks before Tulsa Ryan in Wagner, who In a small town east of Tulsa, a black man had been arrested on a minor charge and booked into the Wagon County Jail and that night the sheriff or guard or deputy, whoever was responsible for prison, he conveniently went out to get a sandwich as a gift.

A mob dressed in white robes entered the jail, pulled the man out, put a rope around his neck, wrapped the other end of the rope around the bumper of a Ford Model T and dragged him down the center of Wagner Main Street and that kind of things. It didn't just happen in Oklahoma. That kind of thing happened all over the country and there were a lot of lynchings before the riot and I'm sorry to say there were a lot of lynchings after the riot, but there were no lynchings in Tulsa County after the riot. I am aware that my mother had actually shed tears, I had never seen her cry and I had never heard her speak in that higher tone and a little thing like burning the city was quite small to me compared to my shock at seeing this person absolutely strong, still, beautiful, invincible, with tears rolling down her cheeks, that was really a riot for me, yeah, seeing him, you know, and then coming home, that was the determination to do things to make things right again. where were you. naturally we waited because we didn't know how we were going to do it because you know it's a store with the store completely destroyed at that time I thought I didn't know that the insurance wasn't going to pay, I mean everyone took over their fire insurance, that was It was an act of God with his dismissal, you know?

At least you know the basics, but I had a lot of nightmares after that, I couldn't sleep at night and they were very worried about me because it was a big shock for me. I think I read them less than I knew about prejudice, but I didn't write well. The interesting thing that happened during the riot was that the trip lasted almost all night on May 31, 1921 and into the early morning hours of June 1, 1921 before law enforcement authorities could. To get everything under control, the city police wanted nothing to do with trying to control the Ku Klux Klan, in fact, the police chief, a man named Gustafson, confiscated black vehicles and gave them to two of his buddy cops.

Tulsa Police officers, which I could point out with some justification was a politicized police force at the time, not the police force that Tulsa has today, which is a first-class department, but the point is that in those days it gave them those vehicles confiscated from those two. police officers who went out and sold them to white people and then shared the profits. Chief Gustafson was later accused of this and removed from public office in June 1921, but there were many other accusations, many of these accusations with a byproduct of National Guard boards. What needs to be investigated now is what happened in the riot and this is fascinating, is that here we have a major war in downtown Tulsa that broke out and moved north, towards the northern part of the city, and finally wiped out the northern part of the city.

The city was completely devastated and yet the mayor and none of the city commissioners called the governor. At that time we only had a 140-man ambulance company in the Oklahoma National Guard stationed in Tulsa. The governor at the time did not know there was a riot in Tulsa. until the next morning because no city or county official notified him except the County Sheriff, the County Sheriff, one of his black deputies through the northern part of the city towards Sand Springs, took Sand Springs to a telegraph taking into account the telephone. the telegraph lines were down the railroad tracks were broken there were two members of the Klux Klan standing at roadblocks trying to catch black people trying to escape the city and there were refugees as far away as Kansas City in Wichita and Muskogee Oklahoma Deputy got to that Telegraph and telegraphed to the Governor on behalf of the County Sheriff that there was a riot in Tulsa and that law and order had collapsed.

JB. Robertson, who was governor at the time, sent the adjutant general, who is the top military officer of the National Guard. In Oklahoma in Tulsa the adjutant general arrived and immediately assessed the situation as if it were exactly what the governor had told them that representative had told him and the adjutant general mobilized the Oklahoma National Guard and they sent Guard units from places as far away like Enid. and Lawton Oklahoma City and Muskogee in places like that and many people attribute the troops that came were federal troops they were not federal troops the federal troops were never deployed here this was the Oklahoma National Guard that came with many of the survivors that I The interviewed when they were still alive they told me frankly that the black survivors told me frankly that they would not be alive that day if it had not been for the Oklahoma national guards because the guards came in and the first thing they did was declare martial law. and threatened to shoot anyone found armed, they set up burial compounds to protect the black refugees because the black refugees were scattered all over the city, their houses were burned, they didn'tThey had nowhere to go, so they settled in residential complexes around the city in various parks and places like this, but I didn't tell them that one of my husband's best friends was murdered that day, he was probably on that run, look, He told him not to run and not to approach nearby places because they would simply shoot.

That group, this guy's name was Willie Lockett, he and my husband were great friends and until I told him where they're going with him, he said, I don't know, man, I'm just going to go in, he was on a horse and they said. This was one of his favorite horses from a medallion family, so I told him to be careful and stay outside and open him up, but that day he was killed by every single insurance company that had a policy that covered any type of damage to homes, commercial businesses or industries. They cut and canceled his insurance policy because a riot was not included.

The federal government and the state governments did not have programs to compensate citizens for being victims of a breakdown of law and order as effectively as the citizens living in little Africa bore all the loss, the problem was that when we spoke Entire laws talked about everything, there was no FDIC that could have had your money in a bank and if the bank burned down because of the stolen money there was no way to get it back. it Jewel stories in little Africa where travel plane furniture was removed from houses, everything disappeared and houses were burned to the ground, so when we talk about refugees, we are talking about refugees who are not They had nothing left except what they had in their Yes, she was a good friend of mine, she and her husband Dave gave birth to a baby that night and you know, I guess she had nothing to put him in because there were no amenities, they put him in a box of shoes, no. going baby and but some people you know some people that day you couldn't stop them we had to walk because that was our safe this way but these people were running and Seema is older they put this box now who had this? big world and the rest of the people got terribly tired and they couldn't find him, he was born dead, he was already dead but they didn't want to go and wait.

I'm I'll take him home and then I'll have a cold and what they couldn't do and there was so much that happened that day that we lost our best doctor the next morning but they told me he had done it oh he stayed somewhere so. one of those buildings near Don where it seemed like three cardinal places in Greenwood, you know, it's the guest house on that side, yeah, I'm like that in this Brickyard siding, well, they said it stayed long, Danny, just molded a few . of them in 1925, you couldn't tell while there was still some rubble or artwork left, but for the most part you couldn't really tell that it had been a completely devastated community and they didn't buy it, build houses and build stores and build hotels and They reinstalled the primary school.

The elementary school had been completely bombed, but they were angry at their schools and they came back with their pride, but yeah, and nothing would stop them, that's how they don't do it. I know they had a lot of trouble building because someone came up with the idea of ​​making an ordinance that no one could build a one-story house, if you built you had to build two stories in a certain amount, you see, that was a zoning that was approved. I was surreptitiously right to stop them from building there again because the city really wanted to expand there, but there was a lawyer BC Franklin and a couple of other lawyers who went to court and won the case that people own their land .

They could rebuild whatever they chose on their land and they didn't have to live by these specifications that the zoning people had put in that were really artificial, you know, this has been over 70 years, yeah, since a long time has passed since the fire, what are you doing? Do you think now about the fire of being in Tulsa as a child? Well, I guess looking back, I'm really glad I had that kind of start where I never had to wonder whether or not you could do something or achieve something, yeah. there were so many people who had and had and knew people when you were a kid and you know people who look like you and who own airplanes yeah it does something for you you know in many ways it was a privilege we weren't rich but it was a very privileged experience It never occurred to me to think that Mexicans or Native Americans were inferior or different or that we shouldn't because I had always been raised you know where they ran and I'm sure that's art.

There was no question of talking about it. I think it has been a very good investment because there has been so much hatred and dissension now that if I had understood more, I would be a very different person, the first of which, less bad. witnesses that a plane crossed the black community through the air and something was thrown out of it, there were explosions, the problem is that you do not have a direct cause and effect relationship because Tulsa was running on natural gas in those days as it is today and many of the houses were already on fire, so from a more precise perspective there is no hard evidence that a plane flew over the black community and dropped bombs on the black community; however, there were a couple of things that we were able to establish that there was a plane over the black community that things were dropped from there there are some interesting conclusions that can be drawn from some of the evidence available first it was not a government plane there were only about half a dozen planes in the state at that time that belonged to the government, there was no Air Force, so there was no Air National Guard and there were about half a dozen biplanes at Fort Sill, none of them took off during this period , but this was the period of the Barnstormers.

It's not unusual for a pilot who learned to fly in World War I to have a biplane and fly all over the country and do tricks at state fairs and maybe hire someone for a couple of dollars, that's in all likelihood what happened. so. a Barnstormer had his own plane and actually flew over the black community now, if he dropped something and if that was what it was, it's perfectly understandable how it could have worked because it doesn't take much to make a bomb, especially if you're a veteran. From a recent war that had just ended, Greenwood was soon labeled America's black Wall Street;

It was made up of highly educated black doctors, lawyers, PhDs, merchants, oilmen and businessmen. What's interesting about this particular situation is that in north Tulsa in 1921, before the riots there. There was an area called Little Africa and that was a sign of respect. The black business community was extraordinarily prosperous. In fact, arguably the best minds in black America had migrated north to Tulsa in their late teens and early twenties. They built a commercial and business area. establishment so prosperous that it rivaled any place in the world, in fact, the main street of little Africa, Greenwood, was mystically known as the black Wall Street, there were millionaires who lived there and part of the architecture of some of the old houses in north Tulsa.

There was some representative period, what do we tell people today? And in reacting to that, what did we learn from it? Well, I think two things, one is that the newspapers were able to keep it a secret, in fact, to perpetrate the lie that everyone got restitution, no one got it. any restitution of anything except they could, they could make up a lie and it would be accepted as truth and no one would care that it was true and yet people survived but not because they know they got some kind of justice and I think one thing that we could have learned, but what is that if people really have a strong will and a strong feeling for each other?

It is amazing what can be accomplished and I am particularly grateful for the education I received in Tulsa when we returned to Brooklyn Washington High, it was a fantastic school, the teachers were so well trained that they couldn't get a job anywhere else, of course, so that they taught there and when I went to Columbus, yes, I was going to say that, until well into Columbus, the teachers didn't believe that they had taught me everything. They had taught me, you know, because they thought of the South, you know, and I remember that even in math the teacher said community quadratic equations, this is a ninth grade, I said well, what method would you like and she said how many do you know and I said , Well. because she said in ninth grade you can do it four ways what we were talking about she had been talking about black Wall Street the fact that it existed let's talk just for a minute about the nature of the book what the book is about about the book The Community The most prolific black woman in the world is America, and we tell that story through the eyes of an African-American man from Ohio and a Jewish merchant.

We thought it was very important that each of these characters represented ten people that you read about in this book. we write a very visual book, we write the book the way children think, we put the tones in the book to make them turn the pages and that's what's exciting about the book, the book tells you the story as if you were there and it does , and by the way, more than the book, you have a videotape, we have a videotape, black alcohol runs through the Holocaust, it lasts fifty-five minutes, the store tells you that you made that trip on June 1, 1921, tell our viewers briefly about the children's book.

The children's book is a black Wall Street, a city created a long time ago, which was written by my wife and I, Ned Wilson, my wife is Latricia Wallace, and it gives positive images and we look for positive images in this story, said a old man of about 80 years old. My opinion is that if he writes the story wrong, he doesn't write about the hate because the person he may be writing about may be the cause of it. Across the country, our inner-city communities are hurting. We are asking 1 million African Americans to stand up. and take back your community to schedule a Black Town Hall on Wall Street call us at eight hundred five to seven seven to nine nine call today I wish we had more time and we are not sorry to have to close on behalf of Ron and Leticia Wallace and the Black Wall Street team .

I want to thank you for being here with us. It was wonderful. Thank you for the important role you played in American history. We salute them for what they have done for their country. story that you have told and thank you for those of you who have been watching remember that we can begin to change the world but we can only do it by changing ourselves and then passing it on to those around us so pass it on and to God. God bless you until we meet again. What words of wisdom could you give to children?

What in terms of following somewhere? You are part of their patterns and perspectives on discipline to keep them out of harm's way. What could you do? What could you help young children? I'll say this right on camera if you're young and you live in America, whether you're white, black, red, green or whatever, you have a lot of adversities and you know what those adversities are because you're the one who's young. You are the one who is suffering all the pains of degradation for being young, if you want to make a difference, figure out what you want to do, where you want to go and don't let anyone under any circumstances deny you that.

Ryan, yes, I must be and have a lot today.