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90 reviewsA multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black Wall Street,” that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, & gentrification
When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to Greenwood, Tulsa, in 1914, his family joined a growing community on the cusp of becoming a national center of black life. But, just 7 years later, on May 31, 1921, the teenaged Ed hid in a bathtub as a white mob descended on his neighborhood, laying waste to 35 blocks & murdering as many as 300 people. The Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the most brutal acts of racist violence in U.S. history, a ruthless attempt to smother a spark of black independence.
But that was never the whole story of Greenwood. The Goodwins & their neighbors soon rebuilt it into “a Mecca,” in Ed’s words, where nightlife thrived, small businesses flourished, & an underworld economy lived comfortably alongside public storefronts. Prosperity & poverty intermixed, & icons from W.E.B. Du Bois to Muhammad Ali ambled down Greenwood Ave., alongside maids, doctors, & every occupation in between. Ed grew into a prominent businessman & bought a newspaper called the Oklahoma Eagle to chronicle Greenwood’s resurgence & battles against white bigotry. He & his wife, Jeanne, raised an ambitious family, & their son Jim, an attorney, embodied their hopes for the Civil Rights Movement in his work.
But by the 1970s, urban renewal policies had nearly emptied the neighborhood, even as Jim & his neighbors tried to hold on to it. Today, while new high-rises & encroaching gentrification risk wiping out Greenwood’s legacy for good, the family newspaper remains, & Ed’s granddaughter Regina represents the neighborhood in the Oklahoma state legislature, working alongside a new generation of local activists.
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