#blacktowns

They won’t teach you in school that many Black American towns, businesses, banks, schools, people, and generational wealth created immediately after slavery were destroyed by white people.

In 1898 African-Americans were a majority of Wilmington, NC’s population. The entire city was operated by colored people. Most owned homes and businesses in the city. Some houses were oceanfront. The city was independently Black owned, having their own banks, newspapers and government. On November 10, 1898, white insurgents overthrew the elected government and forced black leaders out of the city. They massacred families, burned down their homes and businesses. It is considered the only successful coup, a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government, in American history. African Americans who survived never regained their land nor their power. All their financial assets were stolen illegally by the racists

The Forgotten Women of Black Wall Street Here’s what’s known famously about Greenwood, the early 20th century Black community of Tulsa, and infamously about its destruction: Black businessmen helped build #Greenwood into a financial Black mecca that produced an abundance of successful entrepreneurs, some of whom turned into #millionaires. A young Black man, Dick Rowland, accused of accosting a white woman in an elevator, became the impetus for one of the worst race riots in U.S. history. That riot began with a mob of white men from Tulsa and beyond who flocked to the courthouse to lynch Rowland, which led to the assemblage of a counter-mob of Black men who took up arms to defend him. These are the beginning chapters of what would become known as the Tulsa Race Massacre, which took place 100 years ago this week. From May 31 to June 1, 1921, white people — many of them law enforcement — shot up, bombed and burned down the dozens of Black-owned businesses and hundreds of Black homes that made up Greenwood, killing nearly 300 Black residents & injuring & displacing thousands more. It’s a story told almost exclusively about men. However, we only know many of the shocking details about that massive tragedy because of a Black woman named Mary E. Jones Parrish, who ran a typing school on North Greenwood Street. Her book, Events of the Tulsa Disaster, published in 1922, tells her own story along with eyewitness accounts from dozens of other Black Greenwood survivors. There’s been little known about the Black women of Greenwood who, like #MaryParrish, helped create the neighborhood’s national reputation as a haven of Black intellectual & financial prowess, known popularly as “The Negro’s Wall Street.” Emerging scholarship on Greenwood is changing that, showing that Black women were as critical to building Greenwood as they were to helping Black people survive the massacre, & rebuild the neighborhood afterward. #wonderwombman #blackhistory365 #tuslaoklahoma #greenwood #blackcities #blacktowns #anationwithinanation #1865 #1919 #1921 #1965 #1619 #ourstory #blackteachers #blackteachersmatter #takeitback #wonderwombman https://www.instagram.com/p/CPdebVXj7Zc/?utm_medium=tumblr

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I am My History ~ Celebrating it everyday, every month, and in every way! No day, or month ~ I am Black History! Allensworth National Park ~ First town founded by Blacks in California. Let's Go! #allensworthca #colonelallensworth #blacktowns #historicalblack #historicalblacktown #allensworthstatepark #allensworthstatehistoricpark (at Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKy5mrugK1n/?igshid=1qd51xuwz2ytl

Plus Size Model Jamila Jay Our past, Our History does have reference on our future. Allensworth, Ca was our past, our historical reference. We can build great communities in the inner cities or in suburban America. As Allensworth, Ca as our point of reference all things are possible. You Have a Choyce Always Share Love #blacklivesmatters #blackhistory #blacktowns #allensworthca #allensworthstatepark https://www.instagram.com/p/BuL7CTqAjdp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dn69ova7135y