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Radio: ‘The foundation of the wealth’: Why Black Wall Street boomed

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‘The foundation of the wealth’: Why Black Wall Street boomed

On Monday, Tulsans commemorate the 100th anniversary of a two-day assault by armed white men on Tulsa’s prosperous Black community of Greenwood, known around the country as Black Wall Street, calling attention to an era of deadly mob assaults on Black communities that official history long suppressed.