"Black Wall Street" is a true story about a 19 year old Dick Rowland accused of trying to rape Sara Page in a public elevator. After his arrest the unsettled mob of about 10,000 people including the National Guard, the police and their deputies while full of rage and jealousy destroy the town of Greenwood and killed numbers of Negroes.

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At the beginning of May 1921, approximately 11,000 people lived in Greenwood, the black section of Tulsa, it was set just north of the center of the “magic city,” as Tulsa called itself.Greenwood residents often times worked in white Tulsa, across the railroad tracks, but they returned to their homes in Greenwood at the end of their day.“Little Africa,” as Greenwood was called was largely a self-sufficient community, with a school, a hospital, hotels, grocery, drug, and clothing stores, two newspapers, and two movie theaters.It was a place where after slavery had ended, blacks could live in a type of freedom that they had not yet experienced.Veterans of the World War, men who had traveled the world, lived there and discussed great ideas of equality.The economic prosperity of the community fostered the idea of equality which mixed with a new music, called jazz.Alcohol, drugs, and dancing were readily available, and sometimes at night the strict line segregating black and white brown down in the dance halls, the choc joints where Choctaw beer was sold, and the juke joints.Greenwood was a vibrant, proud community.It was built upon the Oklahoma tradition that promised cheap land and opportunity to both blacks and whites in the aftermath of the Civil War.We will bring to life the true events of what took place in Greenwood.The story of Dick Rowland, Sara Page, Greenwood Residents, the Mob, the Police Department and the Tulsa National Guard is a part of history that needs to be told and we are going to make it come to life in an historic adventurous fashion.