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The Economy of Autonomy: The Greenwood Miracle

While Black people across the United States were systematically shut out of capital and fair markets, Greenwood built a self-sustaining economy. It became living proof that success didn’t “go missing”—it was created, even under the harshest conditions.

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The name “Black Wall Street” is now synonymous with one of the greatest African American success stories. In the midst of the brutal Jim Crow era of racial segregation, the residents of Tulsa’s Greenwood District in Oklahoma built an economic ecosystem unlike anything else in the world.