African Community Research Paper
Blacks attempted to build up their own communities and support themselves in 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma home to Little Africa. This community was home to over 9,000 American Africans. Providing a sense of being seeing as though the only residence in Greenwood were American African with their own schools, banks, employment, they do not need leave their community for anything. One day a white woman claimed that a young black man raped her in the elevator. The white community was outraged at this news. The whites burned, looted and destroyed homes, and businesses, while killing and injuring the residence of Greenwood. The argument I’m trying to make is that the American African‘s communities and lives even if peaceful and separate from the whites are