A podcast that takes a deep dive eploration into a period in history of great promise and great disappointment for Black Americans who dreamed of and struggled for the promise of community and full citizenship in America.

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Dreams of Black Wall Street Season 3...

explores several important places in North Carolina's history during the 19th and 20th century, including Wilmington's African American community - the target of the nearly forgotten 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and Coup D'Etat - as well as the early 20th century community of Durham's Black Wall Street.

Season 3 Episodes

Season 3 Introduction: Durham’s Black Wall Street in the shadows of the 1898 Wilmington Massacre

LISTEN: OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS Journalist, podcast host and producer, Nia Clark revisits often overlooked but important parts of...

S3 E1: Wilmington, North Carolina Before the Insurrection of 1898

LISTEN: OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS Journalist, podcast host and producer, Nia Clark, revisits often overlooked but important parts of...

S3 E2 The 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and Coup D'Etat Part 1

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS The beginning of a deep dive into the 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and Coup D'Etat. The massacre was...

S3 Commemorative Special: 123 Years after the 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and Coup D'Etat

LISTEN: OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS A special episode commemorating the 123rd anniversary of the 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and Coup...

S3 E3: The 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and Coup D'Etat Part 2

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS The continuation of a deep dive into the 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and Coup D'Etat. The massacre...

S3 E4 The 1900 White Supremacist Campaign of 1900 - How Black Men Lost the Vote

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS Almost immediately following the white supremacist campaign that culminated in the 1898 Wilmington...

S3 E5 Durham's Black Wall Street Part 1

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS The beginning of an exploration into the community of Durham, North Carolina in the period following...

S3 E6 Durham's Black Wall Street Part 2

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS Black Durham’s success did not end with Black Wall Street. Durham’ Black Wall Street was located in...

S3 E7 Race, Class and Politics in Black Durham

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS An exploration of the complicated intersection of race, class and politics in Durham, North Carolina....

S3 E8 Pioneering Black Durham: Success, Sacrifice and Setbacks

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS The pioneers and leaders of Black Durham during the early 20th century are often lauded for steering...

S3 E9 Documenting Unsung Women Leaders of Black Durham and North Carolina

LISTEN Black women have often been omitted or written out of history. This much is true when it comes to many women leaders of Black...

S3 E10 Documenting Unsung Women Leaders of Black Durham and North Carolina Part 2

LISTEN Black women have often been omitted or written out of history. This much is true when it comes to many women leaders of Black...

S3 E12 Durham's BWS and Wilmington, N.C. More Than a Century After the 1898 White Supremacy Campaign

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS Many experts view the 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and Coup D’Etat as a turning point in the fortunes...

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Season 2 Episodes

Jan 12, 2020
2 min

Season 2 Rosewood Introduction

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS Dreams of Black Wall Street examines the course of once thriving predominantly Black communities that...

Jan 11, 2020
2 min

S2 E1 290 Years Before the Rosewood Massacre

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS In order to understand how an incident such as the Rosewood Massacre could occur, it is important to...

Jan 10, 2020
3 min

S2 E2: Road to Rosewood

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS The predominantly African American Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was not the only...

Jan 9, 2020
2 min

S2 E3 3 Years Before the Rosewood Massacre: the Deadliest Election Day in U.S. History

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS Exactly 100 years ago, what is known as the bloodiest election day in American history left a grave...

Jan 8, 2020
3 min

S2 E4: 3 Years Before Rosewood - the Deadliest Election Day in US History (Part 2)

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS A continuation of the exploration of the 1920 Ocoee Massacre. The Ocoee Massacre occurred three years...

Jan 7, 2020
3 min

S2 Ep 5 Eatonville, FL: One of America's first incorporated all-Black towns Endures Before and After

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS Michigan state University English Professor, Julian Chambliss, explains that the idea of town or...

Jan 6, 2020
2 min

S2 E6 Perry, FL: One Month Before the Rosewood Massacre

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS Throughout much of the 20th century, Florida had been a Ku Klux Klan stronghold. Klansmen found...

Jan 5, 2020
2 min

S2 E7 Rosewood: The Community

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS Like atrocities of a similar nature, the tragedy of the Rosewood Massacre draws attention to the...

Jan 4, 2020
2 min

S2 E8 Rosewood: the Massacre

LISTEN TO EPISODE OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS It has been 98 years since Rosewood, Florida was destroyed. The first week of January...

Jan 3, 2020
3 min

S2 E9 Rosewood: Escape

Descendants of the Evans family at the Virtual Rosewood Family Reunion held July 2020 LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS Despite the...

Jan 3, 2020
3 min

S2 E10 Rosewood: Justice for All

Gregory Black: descendant of Rosewood survivor Ruth Davis Bradley LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS In America, citizenship implies the...

Jan 1, 2020
2 min

S2 E11 Rosewood: House Bill 591

The signing of House Bill 591 - the Rosewood claims bill that let to the historic settlement paid to survivors and descendants of the...

Dec 31, 2019
2 min

S2 E12 Season Finale - Rosewood: 5 Acres of Land

LISTEN: OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS In studying the systemic devaluing of Black life, it is important to understand how Black life is...

Season 1 Episodes

Introduction: Black Wall Street 1921

Photo Courtesy: Library of Congress. Title: Ruins after the race riots, Tulsa, Okla. Created / Published June 1921. Photographer name or...

Ep 1: The "Five Civilized Tribes" And The Complicated History Between Blacks and Native Americans

Photo Courtesy: Library of Congress. Title: Map of the Indian and Oklahoma territories.Created / Published[S.l.], 1892.Call...

Ep. 2: Oklahoma: A Promised Land

Title [An oil well, Oklahoma] Created / Publishedc1922. Notes- J253614 U.S. Copyright Office.- Copyright by G.H. Farnum, Okeman,...

Ep. 3: Black Wall Street is Born

Photo Courtesy: Tulsa Historical Society and Museum LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS A special thanks to the National African American...

Ep. 4: Red Summer of 1919

Photo Courtesy: The Schomburg Center LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS The Red Summer of 1919 refers to the period between the spring...

Ep. 4 The Red Summer of 1919 (Part 2)

Photo Courtesy: The Schomburg Center LISTEN: OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS The Red Summer of 1919 refers to the period between the spring...

Ep. 5: Rumors of Lynching "Diamond Dick"

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS Title: [Truck on street near Litan Hotel carrying soldiers and African Americans during Tulsa, Okla.,...

Ep. 6: Black Wall Street Burning

Photo Courtesy: Tulsa Historical Society and Museum LISTEN Overview Between May 31st and June 1st of 1921, what the Oklahoma Historical...

Ep. 6: Black Wall Street Burning (Part 2) - A Descendant's Story

Dr. A.C. Jackson: the most prominent person killed in the Tulsa Race Massacre. Photo courtesy: Ruth Sigler Avery Collection held at the...

Ep. 7 BONUS EPISODE: A Black Wall Street Legend-the story of Peg Leg Taylor and the legacy of trauma

"Stories also have been passed down over the years about Peg Leg Taylor, a legendary black defender who is said to have fought off rioters.

Ep. 8: When The Smoke Cleared

Photo Courtesy: Tulsa Historical Society and Museum LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS When the mayhem ceased, and the smoke cleared,...

Ep. 9: Ashes And The Fight For Greenwood

Photo Courtesy: Tulsa Historical Society and Museum Title: Portrait of Buck Colbert B. C. Franklin, father of Mozella Franklin Jones and...

Ep. 10: Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS Despite potentially thousands of potential perpetrators of numerous crimes and potentially hundreds or...

Ep. 11: Black Wall Street Reborn

Photo Courtesy: Tulsa Historical Society and Museum LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS While some African American survivors of the 1921...

Ep. 12: "Tulsa's Terrible Secret" and the Erasure of Black History

Photo Courtesy: Tulsa Historical Society and Museum Listen OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS Up until the later part of the 20th century, there...

Introduction: Black Wall Street 1921

Photo Courtesy: Library of Congress. Title: Ruins after the race riots, Tulsa, Okla. Created / Published June 1921. Photographer name or...

Ep 1: The "Five Civilized Tribes" And The Complicated History Between Blacks and Native Americans

Photo Courtesy: Library of Congress. Title: Map of the Indian and Oklahoma territories.Created / Published[S.l.], 1892.Call...

Ep. 2: Oklahoma: A Promised Land

Title [An oil well, Oklahoma] Created / Publishedc1922. Notes- J253614 U.S. Copyright Office.- Copyright by G.H. Farnum, Okeman,...

Ep. 3: Black Wall Street is Born

Photo Courtesy: Tulsa Historical Society and Museum LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS A special thanks to the National African American...

Ep. 4: Red Summer of 1919

Photo Courtesy: The Schomburg Center LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS The Red Summer of 1919 refers to the period between the spring...

Ep. 4 The Red Summer of 1919 (Part 2)

Photo Courtesy: The Schomburg Center LISTEN: OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS The Red Summer of 1919 refers to the period between the spring...

Ep. 5: Rumors of Lynching "Diamond Dick"

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS Title: [Truck on street near Litan Hotel carrying soldiers and African Americans during Tulsa, Okla.,...

Ep. 6: Black Wall Street Burning

Photo Courtesy: Tulsa Historical Society and Museum LISTEN Overview Between May 31st and June 1st of 1921, what the Oklahoma Historical...

Ep. 7 BONUS EPISODE: A Black Wall Street Legend-the story of Peg Leg Taylor and the legacy of trauma

"Stories also have been passed down over the years about Peg Leg Taylor, a legendary black defender who is said to have fought off rioters.

Ep. 8: When The Smoke Cleared

Photo Courtesy: Tulsa Historical Society and Museum LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS When the mayhem ceased, and the smoke cleared,...

Ep. 9: Ashes And The Fight For Greenwood

Photo Courtesy: Tulsa Historical Society and Museum Title: Portrait of Buck Colbert B. C. Franklin, father of Mozella Franklin Jones and...

Ep. 10: Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS Despite potentially thousands of potential perpetrators of numerous crimes and potentially hundreds or...

Ep. 11: Black Wall Street Reborn

Photo Courtesy: Tulsa Historical Society and Museum LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS While some African American survivors of the 1921...

Ep. 12: "Tulsa's Terrible Secret" and the Erasure of Black History

Photo Courtesy: Tulsa Historical Society and Museum Listen OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS Up until the later part of the 20th century, there...

Ep. 13: Where Are The Bodies Buried?

LISTEN OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS A significant number of African American residents of Tulsa’s predominantly black Greenwood District...

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THIS SEASON

Dreams of Black Wall Street Season 3...

Season 3 Episodes

Season 3 Introduction: Durham’s Black Wall Street in the shadows of the 1898 Wilmington Massacre

S3 E1: Wilmington, North Carolina Before the Insurrection of 1898

S3 E2 The 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and Coup D'Etat Part 1

S3 Commemorative Special: 123 Years after the 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and Coup D'Etat

S3 E3: The 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and Coup D'Etat Part 2

S3 E4 The 1900 White Supremacist Campaign of 1900 - How Black Men Lost the Vote

S3 E5 Durham's Black Wall Street Part 1

S3 E6 Durham's Black Wall Street Part 2

S3 E7 Race, Class and Politics in Black Durham

S3 E8 Pioneering Black Durham: Success, Sacrifice and Setbacks

S3 E9 Documenting Unsung Women Leaders of Black Durham and North Carolina

S3 E10 Documenting Unsung Women Leaders of Black Durham and North Carolina Part 2

S3 E12 Durham's BWS and Wilmington, N.C. More Than a Century After the 1898 White Supremacy Campaign

Don't forget to...

PREVIOUS SEASONS

Season 2 Episodes

Season 2 Rosewood Introduction

S2 E1 290 Years Before the Rosewood Massacre

S2 E2: Road to Rosewood

S2 E3 3 Years Before the Rosewood Massacre: the Deadliest Election Day in U.S. History

S2 E4: 3 Years Before Rosewood - the Deadliest Election Day in US History (Part 2)

S2 Ep 5 Eatonville, FL: One of America's first incorporated all-Black towns Endures Before and After

S2 E6 Perry, FL: One Month Before the Rosewood Massacre

S2 E7 Rosewood: The Community

S2 E8 Rosewood: the Massacre

S2 E9 Rosewood: Escape

S2 E10 Rosewood: Justice for All

S2 E11 Rosewood: House Bill 591

S2 E12 Season Finale - Rosewood: 5 Acres of Land

Season 1 Episodes

Introduction: Black Wall Street 1921

Ep 1: The "Five Civilized Tribes" And The Complicated History Between Blacks and Native Americans

Ep. 2: Oklahoma: A Promised Land

Ep. 3: Black Wall Street is Born

Ep. 4: Red Summer of 1919

Ep. 4 The Red Summer of 1919 (Part 2)

Ep. 5: Rumors of Lynching "Diamond Dick"

Ep. 6: Black Wall Street Burning

Ep. 6: Black Wall Street Burning (Part 2) - A Descendant's Story

Ep. 7 BONUS EPISODE: A Black Wall Street Legend-the story of Peg Leg Taylor and the legacy of trauma

Ep. 8: When The Smoke Cleared

Ep. 9: Ashes And The Fight For Greenwood

Ep. 10: Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied

Ep. 11: Black Wall Street Reborn

Ep. 12: "Tulsa's Terrible Secret" and the Erasure of Black History

Introduction: Black Wall Street 1921

Ep 1: The "Five Civilized Tribes" And The Complicated History Between Blacks and Native Americans

Ep. 2: Oklahoma: A Promised Land

Ep. 3: Black Wall Street is Born

Ep. 4: Red Summer of 1919

Ep. 4 The Red Summer of 1919 (Part 2)

Ep. 5: Rumors of Lynching "Diamond Dick"

Ep. 6: Black Wall Street Burning

Ep. 7 BONUS EPISODE: A Black Wall Street Legend-the story of Peg Leg Taylor and the legacy of trauma

Ep. 8: When The Smoke Cleared

Ep. 9: Ashes And The Fight For Greenwood

Ep. 10: Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied

Ep. 11: Black Wall Street Reborn

Ep. 12: "Tulsa's Terrible Secret" and the Erasure of Black History

Ep. 13: Where Are The Bodies Buried?

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