A Lynched Black Wall Street: A Womanist Perspective on Terrorism Religion and Black Resilience in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

This book remembers one hundred years since Black Wall Street and it reflects on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Black Wall Street was the most successful Black business district in the United States; yet it was isolated from the blooming white oil town of Tulsa Oklahoma because of racism. During the early twentieth century African-Americans lived in the constant threat of extreme violence by white supremacy lynching and Jim and Jane Crow laws. The text explores through a Womanist lens the moral dilemma of Black ontology and the existential crisis of living in America as equal human beings to white Americans.This prosperous Black business district and residential community was lynched by white terror hate jealousy and hegemonic power using unjust laws and a legally sanctioned white mob. Terrorism operated historically based on the lies of Black inferiority with the support of law and white supremacy. Today this same precedence continues to terrorize the life experiences of African-Americans. The research examines Native Americans and African-Americans the Black migration west the role of religion Black womens contributions lynching and the continued resilience of Black Americans.