Join the discussion: Tulsa’s Black Wall Street was once 35 blocks of wealth. Now it’s two.

Terry Baccus was born in Tulsa in 1963. “My experience is that it wasn’t Black Wall Street to us, it was just Greenwood,” said Baccus, while standing outside a Greenwood restaurant.Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff

TULSA, Okla. — For a century, the Tulsa Race Massacre was an ugly part of America’s history that the country did its best to forget.

The Greenwood District of Tulsa used to be called “Black Wall Street” — some 35 blocks of Black-owned businesses and banks, hotels, movie theaters, cafes, and private homes. It was one of the most prosperous African-American communities in the country.

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