Descended from the Promised Land" The Legacy of Black Wall Street
Sat, Feb 25
|Mequon
SATURDAY, FEB. 25, 2023 @ 11:00 A.M. UCN's Social Justice Committee invites you learn more about this historic event that is not found in many history books or taught in most schools.
Time & Location
Feb 25, 2023, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Mequon, 13800 N Port Washington Rd, Mequon, WI 53097, USA
About the Event
Join the Unitarian Church North
In a discussion on Black Wall Street
Location: 13800 North Port Washington Road Mequon, WI 53097
Date: Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023 @ 11:00 a.m.
In 1921, North Tulsa’s Greenwood District, the most prosperous Black community in America, was set ablaze, bombed, and looted during a racially motivated violent attack against the thriving Black community. Businesses, homes, and lives were lost, and Black Wall Street, as it was known, has never reclaimed its former glory. The Tulsa Race Massacre was only the first in a line of repeated targeted attacks on the progress of the Greenwood District and its residents.
Through the lens of Black Wall Street descendants Byron Crenshaw, Jacqueline Blocker and Michelle Blocker, we draw a century-long thread from the Tulsa Race Massacre to the present, exploring the lingering economic, psychological and emotional impacts that have undermined the rebuilding of the once thriving community.