Women played a vital role in building and supporting the Historic Greenwood district.
When an angry mob destroyed much of it in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, they helped it to rebuild.
Women of Black Wall Street examines their experiences and contributions through biographies.
Read their stories by clicking the profiles below.
Pioneers
As identified by Oklahoma Teacher & Historian, Eddie Faye Gates
This project honors Gates’s rich and invaluable contributions to the history of the African American experience in Oklahoma.
Entrepreneurs
Released in 2021, this WBWS component tells the history through its two most common lenses: entrepreneurship and education.
