For months, my colleagues and I have been immersed in the world of archival maps, photographs, city directories, books, newspapers, survivor accts. and census data to recreate what was lost 100 years ago in Greenwood, also known as the “Black Wall Street”. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
We talked with historians and researchers, and read books about the massacre to understand the details of the horrific event as well as the people who made up the Greenwood community.