Listen to local speaker, Muqeedah Salaam, describe the successful and wealthy community of Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma, also know as the “Black Wall Street,” and how it was destroyed in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. At that time one of the wealthiest Black communities in the United States, it was sacked in a white supremacist massacre that marked some of the worst racial violence in American history.

Muqeedah Salaam has more than 40 years' experience as an educator and lecturer in the United States and abroad, helping others to improve teaching skills in the area of African American history. Among the subjects she has investigated are the Tuskegee Airmen, Mary Fields (the first female mail carrier), and Black inventors and scientists.

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