Black wall street
Storyboard Text
- This is Greenwood, Oklahoma before May 31, 1921
- Airplane dropping dynamite powder from the sky
- Greenwood was a thriving black community with a lot of black owned businesses
- WELCOME TO GREENWOOD'S NEWEST THEATER!
- Welcome to the towns newest cinema
- It was a place where black families could live in peace and enjoy great wealth
- This is Greenwood on May 31, 1921
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- From May 31- June 1, 1921 Greenwood was up in flames because of white mobs
- Hundreds of black citizens were killed or injured. Thousands were left homeless and the survivors were traumatized
- This is black wall street after. Homes and businesses were burned to the ground
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