The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street Quotes

“In 1905 Blacks began to buy land on Greenwood Avenue. This road evolved into the centre of ‘Black Wall Street.”
― Robin Walker, The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street

“The key issue seemed to be control over the oil boom across Oklahoma. The White power structure did not want this oil boom being controlled by Blacks or Native Americans.”
― Robin Walker, The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street

“Ralph Ellison said that: “many of the descendents of freed slaves ... considered it a territory of hope, and a place where they could create their own opportunities ... [F]or Negroes it had a traditional association with freedom which had entered their folklore.” Moreover, Oklahoma “lacked the intensities of custom, tradition and manners which ‘colored’ the institutions of the Old South.”   In”
― Robin Walker, The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street

“Spaulding, and Dr Aaron Moore, founders of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, Durham, North Carolina (founded 1898).”
― Robin Walker, The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street