THE GROWTH ETERNAL + BLACK LANTERN BOOKS

Descended From The Promised Land: The Legacy of Black Wall Street

Nailah Jefferson

Laurens Grant

Michelle Budnick

Vashni Korin

Amber Handy

Nick Stuart

Carolanne Dolan

In 1921, North Tulsa’s Greenwood District, the most prosperous Black community in America, was set ablaze, bombed, and looted during a racially motivated violent attack against the thriving Black community. Businesses, homes, and lives were lost, and Black Wall Street, as it was known, has never reclaimed its former glory. The Tulsa Race Massacre was only the first in a line of repeated targeted attacks on the progress of the Greenwood District.

Through the lens of Black Wall Street descendants Byron Ghalani Crenshaw, Jacqueline Blocker and Michelle Blocker, draw a century-long thread from the Tulsa Race Massacre to the present, exploring the lingering economic, psychological and emotional impacts that have undermined the rebuilding of the once thriving community.

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