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This Is Karen Hunter

S E320: Meet Robert Church: The Man Who Made Black Wall Street Possible

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

4.5888 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Karen and Dr. Greg Carr discuss the man who made Beale Street on Memphis a hot spot and who helped fund the land that led to the creation of Black Wall Street in Tulsa, OK.

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. All right, welcome back to another edition of In Class with Carr, Dr. Gray Carr, head of the

0:16.6

Africana Studies program at Howard University. You can follow him at Africana Carr.

0:20.6

I'm Karen Hunter, and today we're going to talk about Robert Church. Now I

0:24.3

Dr Carr let me first thank you for indulging me. I was reading this book I was

0:29.7

reading this book by Shamari Wills, it's called Black Fortune.

0:34.3

And it's six black.

0:36.2

That's a book that I have not read.

0:38.2

I have it over here.

0:39.4

So teach the people and teach me about that book

0:41.8

so I can pull it up for myself.

0:43.0

All right, I'm not going to give away too much, but what inspired me was, you know, he took,

0:48.1

he told the stories of six black millionaires, like who came out of bondage,

0:54.8

who became millionaires during slavery,

0:57.1

while slavery was in existence.

0:59.3

So the inspiration is there's no obstacle

1:02.2

that we can't overcome. In this book is Antiturnboo, that's where I first learned about.

1:06.4

I know about Annie Malone, but he really went into the story of Annie Turnbull,

1:11.6

which makes this self-made such an

1:14.1

abomination when you think about it and poor row you broke that down, you know, not

1:18.6

really broke it down, we're gonna get into that another time, but I really got to

1:22.3

see how she learned a craft and where her heart was but I also

1:26.3

discovered this guy that I never heard of before Robert Church and I have been talking about

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