![]() ![]() Washington (though he called it “Negro Wall Street”), who believed that Black uplift would come through manual labor and tradesmanship, rather than through demanding citizenship rights and access to professions. The “Black Wall Street” phrase originated with Booker T. ![]() While there were wealthy Black residents in Greenwood, its thriving commercial streets contained mainly small retail and service establishments, with not an investment house or corporate headquarters to be found, and most Black Tulsans worked for white employers. ![]() But the decision by the editors to describe Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood, which white rioters ravaged, as “Black Wall Street” perpetuates a now-common myth. White of the racist massacre in Tulsa, Okla., now republished on your website and in print. It is a testament to The Nation’s long history of progressive journalism that it published in 1921 an on-the-spot account by Walter F. ![]()
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