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Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples with its
Historical Racial Trauma is a window into what distinguishes the Tulsa of
today from the Tulsa of a century ago. Before peering through that porthole,
we must first reflect on Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District in all its splendor
and squalor, from the prodigious entrepreneurial spirit that pervaded it to the
carnage that characterized the 1921 massacre to the post-massacre rebound
and rebuilding that raised the District to new heights to the mid-twentietcentury
decline that proved to be a second near-fatal blow to the current
recalibration and rebranding of a resurgent, but differently configured,
community.
Hannibal B. Johnson, a Harvard Law School graduate, is an author, attorney,
and consultant. Johnson’s play, Big Mama Speaks—A Tulsa Race Riot Survivor’s
Story, was selected for the 2011 National Black Theatre Festival and has been
staged in Caux, Switzerland. He has received copious honors and awards for
this work and community service.