Incredibly, the community was rebuilt.

It was a rebuilt pretty much started right away.

So people didn't hang around saying, you know, what was me?

They said, okay, you know, we've got to rebuild.

And gradually, by the 1940s, this is from 20th,

so in the next two decades, it became bigger and more thriving than it had

than before the massacre.

One of the most important events in America's economic and racial history

is one that hasn't been discussed often.

Gary Lee is the managing editor of the Oklahoma Eagle,

a Tulsa-based and Black-owned media company.

Lee joined the Motley Fool's Bill Mann to talk about the history of Black Wall Street

and the rise of the Greenwood community

and the legacy of the Tulsa race massacre,

and the city of Tulsa's path forward.

I wanted for us to spend some time talking about the Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa

and a period of history that even as someone who was a student of history,

to me was not particularly talked about,

which was the rise of Black Wall Street,

which is the Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa.

And then in 1921, the Tulsa race massacre.

So what can you tell me about the rise of Greenwood and why it was so important?

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