Greenwood District Begins Rebuilding After Tulsa Massacre

Within days of the destruction of Tulsa's Greenwood district in June 1921, Black residents began rebuilding despite city authorities' attempts to rezone Greenwood as industrial and impose brick-only building codes to hamper recovery. The Red Cross provided aid; no city or county funds were offered. By 1925–1928, documentary footage by Reverend Solomon Sir Jones showed a rebuilt, bustling Greenwood—one of history's most powerful examples of Black collective economic resilience.