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Jan 29
6 min

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 ...

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Jan 28
21 min

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 Number/Physic...

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Jan 27
15 min

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, Okla.M...

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Jan 26
39 min

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 ...

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Jan 25
24 min

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 an...

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Jan 24
16 min

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 a...

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Jan 23
18 min

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., ...

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Jan 22
26 min

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 S...

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Jan 22
19 min

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 O...

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Jan 21
29 min

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.

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Jan 20
28 min

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, Bla...

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Jan 19
21 min

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 ...

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Jan 18
29 min

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...

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Jan 17
24 min

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 ...

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Jan 16
2 min

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...

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Jan 15
2 min

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 d...

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Jan 14
2 min

14. The Legacy of Black Wall Street

Photo Courtesy: Oklahoma State University In the nearly 100 In the years since the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, particularly the Gree...

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Jan 13
2 min

Ep. 15 Series Finale - Tulsa's Story

Photo Courtesy: Tulsa Historical Society and Museum LISTEN: OR LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS For decades, a number of scholars and experts hav...

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Jan 12
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 ...

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Jan 11
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 u...

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