VIDEOS & RESOURCES ON AFRICAN-AMERICAN BUSINESS HISTORY
LEARN ABOUT "THE GREEN BOOK" - A travel guide created by a black postman and published (1936–67) that identified black and white-owned businesses across the U.S. that would accept and not harm African American customers during the segregation era in the United States. View actual images of copies of the Green Book on the website for the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History & Culture.
BLACK WALL STREET (TULSA, OK)- Learn about how the emergence of one of the most prosperous African-American business districts in the U.S., and how it was subsequently burned to the ground in the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 and many of its residents murdered by a racist white mob angry at black progress. As late as 2020, Tulsa has not recompensed the descendants of those killed or their survivors in this very public mass-riot and murder. Sites where bodies of successful black business-owners and residents of the districts ares still being identified as of this writing in 2021.