The devastation of Black Wall Street
15 mins | Aug 19, 2017

The story of a prosperous African-American community, tragically seen as a threat to white-dominated American capitalism. Despite the evil of segregation, a middle-class African American neighbourhood prospered in 1920s Oklahoma. But it was not to last, Kimberly Fain describes in JSTOR Daily the fateful night Black Wall Street went up in flames.

From JSTOR Daily