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The Freedman’s Bank failure devastated the Black community, but it also convinced them they needed to control their own financial institutions. In 1888, the Blacks in Richmond chartered the first 100% Black-owned bank: The True Reformers Bank.
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The horrific burning of Black Wall Street shows that racial violence can be fueled by white supremacy, and institutional and systemic racism. Those responsible for this massacre were threatened by financial independence, success, and growth in Tulsa's Black community...
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Wow. As we discuss Tusla Race Riot and
#BossPBS, I just got this alert: "Olivia Hooker, one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 103" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/olivia-hooker-one-of-the-last-survivors-of-the-1921-tulsa-race-massacre-dies-at-103/2018/11/22/f5c03934-ee71-11e8-8679-934a2b33be52_story.html?utm_term=.24bcd0fb648f … -
"The story of the murder of Elmore Bolling, a successful black businessman, by his jealous white neighbor in Alabama in 1949...On a broader scale, during the Jim Crow era white Americans destroyed prosperous black businesses in many communities."
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"Do you know how frustrating it is to go into people's offices who are blasting Drake, blasting TuPac or quoting them in articles, but who won't write checks to Black people?"
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#BossPBS explores the history of African American business before tonight's premiere at 8/7c. pic.twitter.com/fZiVdm4b05Boss: The Black Experience in Business | Inside Look | PBS -
Explore the history of African American entrepreneurship during Boss: The Black Experience in Business, premiering this Tues at 8/7c.
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One person who never stopped in her fight for accountability was Olivia Hooker, who was 6 years old at the time of the massacre, and who passed away last year.
#BossPBS https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/olivia-hooker-one-of-the-last-survivors-of-the-1921-tulsa-race-massacre-dies-at-103/2018/11/22/f5c03934-ee71-11e8-8679-934a2b33be52_story.html …Show this thread -
FACT: Oklahoma has apologized for the Tulsa Race Riot. But they continue to refuse to pay for the 1,000 homes and businesses destroyed. You want to fight for reparations? Start with OKLAHOMA!
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Learn more about the Tulsa Race Massacre
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I'm excited to watch this documentary tonight, which I got to be in. Here is a clip about the Tulsa riot.
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Side Hustle is truly the reality of Black folks in America. We don't do it out of choice. It's was borne - and still is - out of necessity and survival!
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#BossPBS is discussing the People's Grocery in Memphis, TN. developed by Thomas Moss This matches w/last week's#ReconstructionPBS which discussed the Memphis Massacre (& Ida B. Well's). PBS is not playing with us. They are determined we should understand history.pic.twitter.com/H8vk5BM1FnShow this thread -
Little known fact:
@MadamCJWalker brothers were barbers in St. Louis in the 1880s when black men dominated the barbering trade. They introduced her to hair care.#BossPBSShow this thread -
FACT: Black businesses in Atlanta were receiving .0012% of all city contracts. When Maynard Jackson became mayor in 1973, he made it clear that was unacceptable. He changed the game, which changed the South.
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Tulsa was not the only Black Wall Street: Farish Street in Jackson, MS was known as “The Black Mecca of Mississippi”
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#BossPBS with us tonight at 8pmET? Tagging some bosses:@angelayee@tip@killermike@rihanna https://to.pbs.org/2USNTu0 pic.twitter.com/exTDy0O2he
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This is a great article which focuses on the fact that while Black women are the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the country, they still have a ton of obstacles holding them back from reaching their full entrepreneurial potential.
#BossPBS https://www.bustle.com/p/black-women-are-the-fastest-growing-group-of-entrepreneurs-but-major-systemic-obstacles-are-still-standing-in-their-way-44458 …
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