Dr. Karlos Hill, a historian and professor at the University of Oklahoma’s Clara Luper Department of African and African ...
The Brooklyn neighborhood was established in the late 1860's. At its height it was a thriving black business center and an African American city within a city known as Black Wall Street.
The Greenwood Rising Black Wall Street Historic Center unveiled a historic trail marker connecting them to the Oklahoma Civil ...
Greenwood Rising will display a new marker as part of the Oklahoma African-American Historic Trail, honoring Black Wall Street and Black frontier towns. Installation is set for spring.
The son of slaves, Ottaway Gurley would become a multi-millionaire and one of the richest African-Americans in the country.
When Tyrance Billingsley II, a descendant of Greenwood, first had the idea of transforming Black Wall Street into a premier ...