Surviving the Destruction of Black Wall Street
On May 21, 1921, what was once the "Black Wall Street" in Oklahoma became the site of one of the most gruesome race riots in American history. Dr. Olivia Hooker, now a resident of Greenberg, New York, and two other survivors, Otis Clark, 105, of Seattle, Washington, and Wess Young, 92, of Tulsa, attended the screening of Before They Die!, a documentary detailing the accounts of several survivors and Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree, who unsuccessfully petitioned the state courts and later the Supreme Court for reparations.
