Black Wall Street was an upscale black neighborhood in Greenwood, Oklahoma, that stood up to the country's discriminatory institutions. A massacre in 1921 utterly destroyed the community. History is depicted with a specific and deliberate narrative, and how it is reported can vary over time. In the instance of Greenwood, most reporting on the massacre misrepresented both the reason for the violence and the events of the massacre, failing to mention...
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