A local coffee shop is helping to share an often untold story about the Tulsa Massacre, a horrific event when a mob of white city officials and residents attacked Black residents and businesses in 1921.

Just decades after slavery in the United States left Black Americans in an economic and societal deficit, one bright spot stood out in Tulsa, Oklahoma — its Greenwood District, known as the “Black Wall Street,” where Black business leaders, homeowners, and civic leaders thrived.

When black Tulsans showed up with guns to prevent the mans lynching, white Tulsa responded with overwhelming force. They take photos of themselves in front of the inscribed memorials to whats now called Black Wall Street. They raise a defiant fist in the air for other photos in front of a mural to Black Wall Street painted on the side of the overpass. Although expressing doubts about calls for reparations to Tulsa's African Americans, Bynum has supported the search for unmarked burials of victims of the massacre. Even preschoolers in some districts are being told about Black Wall Street not about how it ended, but what it was, said Danielle Neves, deputy chief of academics for Tulsa public schools.

When black Tulsans showed up with guns to prevent the mans lynching, white Tulsa responded with overwhelming force. They take photos of themselves in front of the inscribed memorials to whats now called Black Wall Street. They raise a defiant fist in the air for other photos in front of a mural to Black Wall Street painted on the side of the overpass. Although expressing doubts about calls for reparations to Tulsa's African Americans, Bynum has supported the search for unmarked burials of victims of the massacre. Even preschoolers in some districts are being told about Black Wall Street not about how it ended, but what it was, said Danielle Neves, deputy chief of academics for Tulsa public schools.