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

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    Michael Harriot

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  • Who Killed Black Wall Street?

    Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. (The Root) — Amazing Fact about the…

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    The Root Staff

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    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…

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    The Root Staff

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