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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…