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Hannibal B B Johnson
Social justice matters because we-each of us-matter. Unless we learn to co-exist as equals, we will never live optimally. To denigrate any one of us is to demean all of…
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Hannibal B Johnson
This story, set in 1920, revolves around Charles Charlie Jackson, a twelve-and-a-half-year-old from Boley, Oklahoma, one of America’s best-known all-Black towns. Today Boley, once a thriving black mecca, is smaller…
IncogNegro recounts, poetically, stories of race and diversity. Listen. Listening breeds empathy and moves us closer to walking the proverbial mile in someone else’s shoes. Everything begins with a first…
Hannibal B. Johnson
In the early 1900s, an indomitable entrepreneurial spirit brought national renown to Tulsa’s historic African American community, the Greenwood District. This Negro Wall Street bustled with commercial activity. In 1921…
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The book offers updates on developments in Tulsa generally and in Tulsa’s Greenwood District specifically since the publication of Hannibal B. Johnson’s, Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in…
Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples with its Historical Racial Trauma, endorsed by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission and the 400 Years of African American History…
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Black Wall Street tells the story of Tulsa’s historic Greenwood district, chronicling its development in the early 1900s, the race riots that virtually destroyed it in 1921, and its return…
Early in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the "Greenwood District"- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Frequently referred to as "The Black Wall Street of America," the…
The binding persons of African descent and Native Americans trace back centuries. In Oklahoma, both free and enslaved Africans lived among the Five Civilized Tribes - the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek)…
Beulah Land. Paradise. Shangri-la. Oklahoma seemed to be all of these in the hostile, racist, post-Civil War South. Seeking both refuge and respect, pioneers such as Edward P. McCabe championed…
