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What We Lost In the Fire: Black Wall Street Before the Tulsa Race Massacre

By any measure, John W. Rogers is a success story. He grew up on the South Side of Chicago and started trading stocks when he was 12. He attended Princeton and played on an Ivy League champion basketball team while studying economics. In 1983, he raised $10,000 from friends and family and started Ariel Capital…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

May 26, 2021
Culture, History

Greenwood, Okla.: The Legacy of the Tulsa Race Riot

Editor’s note: Here’s the story of a sad chapter of American history, pulled from The Root’s archives. J.B. Stradford, the son of a freed Kentucky slave, rose to prominence in Oklahoma during the early 1900s as one of the key developers of the all-black Tulsa enclave Greenwood. A lawyer and businessman, Stradford owned the 65-room…

By

The Root Staff

Published

February 24, 2011