Podcasts by Dreams of Black Wall Street
A look back in history at a time of great promise and great disappointment for Black Americans who dreamed of and struggled for the promise of community and full citizenship.
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SE04 EP08 The 1863 New York Draft Riots and Massacre from 2023-09-28T21:18
In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln's government passed a new conscription law requiring certain male citizens to report for military duty if chosen through a lottery. Wealthy men could buy t...
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SE 04 EP 07 WESTCHESTER (THE BRONX) from 2023-09-21T14:00
By 1840 there were nearly 190 African Americans out of more than 4,000 residents in the town of Westchester, located in what is today part of the East Bronx. In 1849, several Black men formed th...
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SE04 EP06 WEEKSVILLE (BROOKLYN) from 2023-09-14T10:00
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The predominantly African American settlement of Weeksville was a beacon of hope at a time in pre-Civil War New York when Blacks had suffered major legislative and legal setbac...
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SE04 EP05 NEWTOWN (QUEENS) from 2023-08-31T00:00
Newtown was settled by free African Americans in 1828, after New York state abolished slavery in 1827. It was nearly forgotten to history until, in 2011, a construction crew digging on a site in...
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SE 04 EP 04 SANDY GROUND (STATEN ISLAND) from 2023-08-23T14:00
Sandy Ground was settled in 1833 by African-American oystermen fleeing the restrictive industry laws of Maryland. It boasts as the “oldest continuously inhabited free Black settlement in the United...
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SE 04 EP 03 SENECA VILLAGE (MANHATTAN) from 2023-08-15T01:10:49
An exploration of what was once the 19th century settlement known as Seneca Village. Before Central Park was created, the landscape along the Park’s perimeter from West 82nd to West 89th Street ...
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SE 04 EP02 THE BLACK ELITE IN ANTEBELLUM NEW YORK CITY PART 2 from 2023-08-03T14:00
Part 2 of an introduction to the Black elite or "the colored aristocracy" in antebellum New York City that also highlights some of the prominent Black leaders of the era. The Black exp...
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SE 04 EP02 THE BLACK ELITE IN ANTEBELLUM NEW YORK CITY PART 1 from 2023-07-27T15:00
An introduction to the Black elite or "the colored aristocracy" in antebellum New York City. The Black experience in the city prior to the Civil War varied and was contingent upon diff...
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SE 04 EP1 PART 2 - BLACKS ON WALL STREET: HOW BLACK PEOPLE HELPED BUILD WALL STREET AND NEW YORK from 2023-07-20T23:57:48
Part 2 of an exploration of Black neighborhoods and enclaves in antebellum New York City during the 19th century. It includes the final years of slavery and the unraveling of the institution as ...
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SE 04 EP1 PART 1 - BLACKS ON WALL STREET: HOW BLACK PEOPLE HELPED BUILD WALL STREET AND NEW YORK from 2023-07-14T12:00:50
An exploration of Black neighborhoods and enclaves in antebellum New York City during the 19th century. This episode illuminates: the origins of what would become Wall Street as a slave auction ...
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SE04 INTRODUCTION from 2023-07-14T12:00
This season will focus on free Black communities and free Black societies during the antebellum period of the 19th century in New York, specifically New York City. They include one in each of wh...
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S3 E12 Durham's Black Wall Street and Wilmington, N.C. More Than a Century After the 1898 White Supremacy Campaign from 2022-05-20T14:51:22
Many experts view the 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and Coup D’Etat as a turning point in the fortunes of African Americans in North Carolina and across the nation. The 1898 white supremacy campa...
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SE3 E11 Pauli Murray: Durham native and Unsung Heroin of the Civil Rights Movement from 2022-04-22T00:29:37
Not only was Pauli Murray was one of the most important Civil Rights leaders that Black Durham ever produced, she was also one of the most important Civil rights leaders of the 20th century...
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S3 E10 Documenting Unsung Women Leaders of Black Durham and North Carolina Part 2 from 2022-03-31T15:49:20
Black women have often been omitted or written out of history. This much is true when it comes to many women leaders of Black Durham in the first several decades of the 20th century, when Durham...
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S3 E9 Documenting Unsung Women Leaders of Black Durham and North Carolina from 2022-03-17T16:41:08
Black women have often been omitted or written out of history. This much is true when it comes to many women leaders of Black Durham in the first several decades of the 20th century, when D...
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S3 E8 Pioneering Black Durham: Success, Sacrifice and Setbacks from 2022-03-04T23:27:52
The pioneers and leaders of Black Durham during the early 20th century are often lauded for steering their community through the challenges of living in the Jim Crow South while creating some of...
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S3 E7 Race, Class and Politics in Black Durham from 2022-02-10T20:32:41
An exploration of the complicated intersection of race, class and politics in Durham, North Carolina. Black Durham’s leaders played an integral role in the “Upbuilding” of their community and ov...
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S3 E6 Durham's Black Wall Street Part 2 from 2022-01-28T00:32:04
Black Durham’s success did not end with Black Wall Street. Durham’s Black Wall Street was located in the historic Hayti community. Many community members believe it was named after the independent ...
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S3 E5 Durham's Black Wall Street Part 1 from 2022-01-12T15:55:39
The beginning of an exploration into the community of Durham, North Carolina in the period following the 1898 white supremacist campaign that led to the Wilmington Insurrection and Coup D’Etat t...
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S3 E4 The White Supremacist Campaign of 1900: How Black Men Lost the Vote from 2021-12-29T21:07:11
Almost immediately following the white supremacist campaign that culminated in the 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and Coup D’Etat came the 1900 white supremacist campaign that culminated in the “Suff...
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S3 E3 The 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and Coup D'Etat Part 2 from 2021-12-09T03:46:02
The continuation of a deep dive into the 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and Coup D'Etat. The massacre was part of a larger white supremacy campaign organized by Democratic leaders in North Carolin...
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S3 Commemorative Special: 123 Years after the 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and Coup D'Etat from 2021-11-24T23:21:25
A special episode commemorating the 123rd anniversary of the 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and Coup D'Etat with highlights from commemorative events in Wilmington, North Carolina. Listeners will ...
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S3 E2 The 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and Coup D'Etat Part 1 from 2021-11-24T23:09:23
The beginning of a deep dive into the 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and Coup D'Etat. The massacre was part of a larger white supremacy campaign organized by Democratic leaders in North Carolina. ...
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SE03 EP1: Wilmington, North Carolina Before the Insurrection of 1898 from 2021-11-10T23:56:07
Journalist, podcast host and producer, Nia Clark, revisits often overlooked but important parts of North Carolina's history that have played a significant part in shaping some of the state's mos...
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Season 3 Introduction: Durham’s Black Wall Street in the shadows of the 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and Coup d’Etat from 2021-11-10T23:21:46
Journalist, podcast host and producer, Nia Clark introduces season three: This season will explore several important events and places in North Carolina’s history during the 19th and early 20th ...
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Post-Season Black Wall Street Centennial Special + Season 3 Sneak Peak from 2021-08-11T21:24:21
Journalist, podcast host and producer, Nia Clark, traveled to Tulsa, Oklahoma for the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. In this episode, she shares her experience attending many...
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E12 Season Finale - Rosewood: 5 Acres of Land from 2021-04-29T20:36:18
In studying the systemic devaluing of Black life, it is important to understand how Black life is also - and often - devalued even after death. Like victims of other similar racially motivated o...
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S2 E11 Rosewood: House Bill 591 from 2021-04-01T05:00
When Rosewood descendant, Arnett Doctor, began looking for an attorney to help him seek legal recourse for the survivors of the 1923 Rosewood Massacre he encountered brick wall after brick wall....
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S2 E10 Rosewood: Justice for All from 2021-03-07T00:59:40
In America, citizenship implies the ability to enjoy the full rights of freedom. This question of who belongs to American society, who is a real American citizen, has been a central problem...
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S2 E9 Rosewood: Escape from 2021-02-08T18:36:22
Despite the symbiosis shared by the communities of Rosewood and neighboring Sumner as well as the relative peace that made that symbiosis possible, research shows racial tensions simmered betwee...
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S2 E8 Rosewood: the Massacre from 2021-01-20T22:30:48
It has been 98 years since Rosewood, Florida was destroyed. The first week of January marked the 98th anniversary of the tragedy. Rosewood, represented what was possible when Black people pooled...
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S2 E7 Rosewood: the Community from 2020-12-31T19:42:41
Like atrocities of a similar nature, the tragedy of the Rosewood Massacre draws attention to the community of Rosewood. It makes us take notice. But once that attention is fixed on these communi...
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S2 E6 Perry, FL: One Month Before the Rosewood Massacre from 2020-12-17T15:55:20
Throughout much of the 20th century, Florida had been a Ku Klux Klan stronghold. Klansmen found friends in government who occupied offices on local, state and federal offices. By 1925 the Klan h...
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S2 E5 Eatonville, FL: One of America's First Incorporated All-Black Towns Endures Before and After Rosewood from 2020-11-30T15:00
Michigan state University English Professor, Julian Chambliss, explains that the idea of town or community creation is not an exception for African Americans. The idea o...
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S2 E4: 3 Years Before Rosewood - the Deadliest Election Day in US History (Part 2) from 2020-11-16T15:25:01
A continuation of the exploration of the 1920 Ocoee Massacre. The Ocoee Massacre occurred three years before the Rosewood Massacre and followed a massive Black voter registration and get-out-the...
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S2 E3 3 Years Before the Rosewood Massacre: the Deadliest Election Day in U.S. History from 2020-11-02T19:36:51
Exactly 100 years ago, what is known as the bloodiest election day in American history left a grave and everlasting stain on Florida’s history. On Election Day 1920, a number of Black residents who...
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S2 E2: Road to Rosewood from 2020-10-31T22:46:17
The predominantly African American Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was not the only so-called Black Wall Street in the early part of the 20th century. There were a number ...
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S2 E1 290 Years Before the Rosewood Massacre from 2020-10-31T22:13:33
In order to understand how an incident such as the Rosewood Massacre could occur, it is important to understand the history of Africans and African Americans in Florida. In this episode S Listen
S2 Rosewood Introduction from 2020-10-31T21:11:26
An overview of this podcast and this season. Dreams of Black Wall Street examines the course of once-thriving predominantly Black communities that are both known by the moniker, Black Wall ...
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S1 E15: Season Finale - Tulsa's Story from 2020-08-13T19:09:26
For decades, a number of scholars and experts have been at the forefront of efforts to tell the story of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. During this time the tragedy remained largely unknown among mo...
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S1 E14 The Legacy of Black Wall Street from 2020-07-29T15:26:17
In the nearly 100 In the years since the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, particularly the Greenwood District, has undergone a considerable and slow transformation. Although Greenwood, experienced ...
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S1 E13 Where Are The Bodies Buried? from 2020-07-15T14:05:42
A significant number of African American residents of Tulsa’s predominantly black Greenwood District disappeared during and after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Some researchers and experts believe ...
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S1 E12: "Tulsa's Terrible Secret" and the Erasure of Black History from 2020-07-01T19:42:24
Up until the later part of the 20th century, there were sustained and concerted efforts to suppress the full truth of the Tulsa Race Riot, which is now acknowledged as the Tulsa Race Massacre. In t...
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S1 E11: Black Wall Street Reborn from 2020-06-17T20:01:20
While some African American survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre left Greenwood for good, surprisingly, many stayed even though most returned home to ashes. However, of the black Tulsans who d...
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S1 E10 Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied from 2020-06-05T07:13:57
Despite thousands of potential perpetrators of numerous crimes and potentially hundreds or thousands of witnesses to these crimes, law enforcement officials did not pursue any of them with any real...
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S1 E9: Ashes And The Fight For Greenwood from 2020-05-27T19:13:39
Over the last nearly 100 years, there has been speculation about whether or not the Tulsa Race Massacre was a planned attempt to launch an attack on Tulsa's Greenwood district. While there is no di...
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S1 E8: When the Smoke Cleared from 2020-05-06T17:04:30
When the mayhem ceased, and the smoke cleared, Black Wall Street laid almost completely flattened. In less than 24 hours, according to a Red Cross estimate, more than 1,200 houses were bur... Listen
S1 E7: BONUS EPISODE: A Black Wall Street Legend - Peg Leg Taylor and the Legacy of Trauma from 2020-04-22T19:52:18
According to A Report by the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, “Not all bl...
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S1 E6: Black Wall Street Burning (Part 2) - A Descendants Story from 2020-04-08T06:00
The episode is Part 2 of a deep dive into the Tulsa Race Massacre, which occurred between May 31st and June 1st of 1921. Hundreds of people are believed to have been killed. Thousands were left... Listen
S1 Black Wall Street 1921 Mid Series Recap from 2020-04-01T19:01:48
A recap of everything covered in episodes 1-6.
Between May 31st and June 1st of 1921, what the Oklahoma Historical Society calls quote, "the single worst incident of racial violence ...
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S1 E6: Black Wall Street Burning from 2020-03-25T12:13:43
Between May 31st and June 1st of 1921, what the Oklahoma Historical Society calls quote, "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history," claimed the lives of potentially hund...
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S1 E5: Rumors of Lynching "Diamond Dick" from 2020-03-19T11:07:29
On Monday, May 30, 1921 an African American shoe shine boy named Dick Rowland boarded an elevator in the Drexel building in downtown Tulsa, OK and headed for the upper floor restroom as he had d...
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S1 E4: The Red Summer of 1919 (Part 2) from 2020-03-11T10:03:08
The Red Summer of 1919 refers to the period between the spring and fall of that year (specifically, between April and November), during which time about 25 or so race riots, massacres and instan...
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S1 E4: The Red Summer of 1919 (Part 1) from 2020-03-04T20:03:22
The Red Summer of 1919 refers to the summer and fall of that year between April and November, during which time about 25 or so race riots, massacres and instances of mob-inspired violence explod...
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S1 E3: Black Wall Street is Born from 2020-03-04T15:13:05
Oil and the prospect of opportunity attracted people of various ethnicities, backgrounds, cultures and traditions to Oklahoma from across the country and beyond, One of the most culturally influ...
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S1 E2: Oklahoma: A Promised Land from 2020-02-19T01:23:30
To understand the rise and eventual fall of Tulsa’s Black Wall Street, it’s important to understand the racial and economic conditions that contributed to it. These dynamics really started to ta...
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S1 E1: The "Five Civilized Tribes" & The Complicated History of Blacks & Native Americans from 2020-02-19T01:11:47
The racial tensions that led to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 did not begin in 1921. They began decades before the city of Tulsa and the state of Oklahoma were formed. Episode 1 will look back...
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S1 Introduction: Black Wall Street 1921 from 2020-02-18T20:50:25
An introduction to the premise of this podcast, which chronicles the history and related events of what has been called "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history." Histor...
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