Black Wall Street~Footage Massacre,Tulsa OK 1921, Historical Black Towns BlackHistoryUniversity.com

Solomon Sir Jones (1869-1936)
Solomon Sir Jones, Baptist minister, businessman, and amateur filmmaker. Jones became an influential Baptist minister, building and pastoring fifteen churches. He was head of the Boyd Faction of Negro Baptists in America and was a successful businessman. Jones filmed the rebuilding of Black Wall Street after the Tulsa Massacre.

Prior to Oklahoma gaining its Statehood, African Americans seeking refuge from Lynchings began establishing over 50 towns and communities in the territories amongst the Native Americans. Ida B.Wells an anti-lynching advocate led an Exodus out of Mississippi and into Oklahoma. In 1905 the Natives proposed to name their Oklahoma “territory”, Sequoyah.

Thirteen towns still exist today! Juneteenth is the perfect time to support these historical towns!!!

The Coltrane Group, a set of volunteers focused on revitalizing and preserving the black towns of Oklahoma, has worked to bring new life to these 13 communities by holding all-black town tours for the last four years. They are raising money and writing for grants to preserve and revitalize the towns’ most famous buildings.

To learn more, call the Coltrane Group at 206-948-8852 or 206-949-5012, or email andreh@thecoltranegroup.org, For more information, visit hbtok.org.
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It was pure envy, and a vow to put progressive, high achieving African Americans in their place that would cause the demise of the Black Mecca many called “Little Africa”, and its destruction began the way much terrorism, violence, and dispossession against African Americans did during that era. A young White woman accused a young Black man of attempted sexual assault, which gave local mobs and White men acting as police just cause to invade the unsuspecting community.

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