Listen Live on KKFI
Every Thursday at 5:30amAbout the Show
Making Contact
"Making Contact" is produced by International Media Project, an independent, non-profit organization founded in 1994, committed to investigative journalism, in-depth critical analysis, the promotion of civic participation and the dissemination of educational material. Its core focus is National Radio Project, the team that creates Making Contact.
Black Wall Street, or the historically Black neighborhood Greenwood, Oklahoma is the site of a prosperous, thriving, Black community. It is also the site of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, a violent attack waged by white supremacists, killing hundreds of residents and leveling homes and businesses.
In the second episode of our three part Black History Month series, we talk about how the community built back. In fact, Greenwoods economic heyday came 20 years later, in the 1940s. Then came the 1950s-60s, when Urban Renewal projects gave the city of Tulsa federal funds to buy out Black land owners. This loss of ownership undercut Greenwoods very existence. Now Greenwood Okies, pulling from their history, are building Tulsas future, despite continued discrimination.
