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zumainthyfuture · 3 months

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You might have heard of Black Wall Street. Meet the founder, O.W. Gurley.

In 1905 Gurley and his wife sold their property in Noble County and moved 80 miles to the oil boom town of Tulsa. Gurley purchased 40 acres of land in North Tulsa and established his first business, a rooming house on a dusty road that would become Greenwood Avenue. He subdivided his plot into residential and commercial lots and eventually opened a grocery store.

As the community grew around him, Gurley prospered. Between 1910 and 1920, the Black population in the area he had purchased grew from 2,000 to nearly 9,000 in a city with a total population of 72,000. The Black community had a large working-class population as well as doctors, lawyers, and other professionals who provided services to them. Soon the Greenwood section was dubbed “Negro Wall Street” by Tuskegee educator Booker T. Washington.

Greenwood, now called Black Wall Street, was nearly self-sufficient with Black-owned businesses, many initially financed by Gurley, ranging from brickyards and theaters to a chartered airplane company. Gurley built the Gurley Hotel at 112 N. Greenwood and rented out spaces to smaller businesses. His other properties included a two-story building at 119 N. Greenwood, which housed the Masonic Lodge and a Black employment agency. He was also one of the founders of Vernon AME Church.

#Queued #Black Wall Street #O.W. Gurley #Ottowa Gurley #Gurley #Tulsa #North Tulsa #Greenwood Avenue #Greenwood #Tuskegee #Booker T. Washington #Booker T Washington #Vernon AME Church #Black History Month #Black History

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fungusqueen · 2 years

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My Halloween troll doll shelf with vintage Gurley candles

#vintage #trolls #halloween #halloween trolls #russ #russ troll dolls #russ troll #jack o lantern #pumpkins #shelf #vintage toys #vintage candles #gurley candles #gurley #I made the fabric mushroom sculptures

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readyforevolution · 3 months

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You might have heard of Black Wall Street. Meet the founder, O.W. Gurley.

In 1905 Gurley and his wife sold their property in Noble County and moved 80 miles to the oil boom town of Tulsa. Gurley purchased 40 acres of land in North Tulsa and established his first business, a rooming house on a dusty road that would become Greenwood Avenue. He subdivided his plot into residential and commercial lots and eventually opened a grocery store.

As the community grew around him, Gurley prospered. Between 1910 and 1920, the Black population in the area he had purchased grew from 2,000 to nearly 9,000 in a city with a total population of 72,000. The Black community had a large working-class population as well as doctors, lawyers, and other professionals who provided services to them. Soon the Greenwood section was dubbed “Negro Wall Street” by Tuskegee educator Booker T. Washington.

Greenwood, now called Black Wall Street, was nearly self-sufficient with Black-owned businesses, many initially financed by Gurley, ranging from brickyards and theaters to a chartered airplane company. Gurley built the Gurley Hotel at 112 N. Greenwood and rented out spaces to smaller businesses. His other properties included a two-story building at 119 N. Greenwood, which housed the Masonic Lodge and a Black employment agency. He was also one of the founders of Vernon AME Church.

Source: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/o-w-gurley-1868-1935/

#blacktumblr #black history #black liberation #african history #o w gurley

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radiofreederry · 9 months

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Happy birthday, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn! (August 7, 1890)

One of the most prominent women in the socialist movement of the early 20th century, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was born in Concord, New Hampshire and became a socialist as a teenager. By the age of fifteen she was already giving socialist speeches and by 17 she had become involved in organizing with the Industrial Workers of the World. She participated in the IWW's free speech fights and helped lead the 1912 Lawrence textile strike and the 1913 Paterson silk strike. Her tenacity and dedication to the cause led IWW troubadour Joe Hill to write the song "Rebel Girl" in her honor. Flynn helped to found the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920, and chaired the International Labor Defense from 1927 to 1930. In the 1930s, Flynn became active in the Communist Party of the United States, and quickly rose to its national committee, becoming its chairwoman in 1961. She remained an active and energetic member of the American left until her death in 1964.

"What is a labor victory? I maintain that it is a twofold thing. Workers must gain economic advantage, but they must also gain revolutionary spirit, in order to achieve a complete victory. For workers to gain a few cents more a day, a few minutes less a day, and go back to work with the same psychology, the same attitude toward society is to have achieved a temporary gain and not a lasting victory. For workers to go back with a class-conscious spirit, with an organized and a determined attitude toward society means that even if they have made no economic gain they the possibility of gaining in the future. In other words, a labor victory must be economic must be revolutionizing. Otherwise it is not complete."

#birthdays #elizabeth gurley flynn

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basicallyanotherwitchesthing · 3 months

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Cosmopolitan's Guide to Fortune-Telling (foreword by Helen Gurley Brown) - Cosmopolitan - 1977

#witches #fortune-tellers #occult #vintage #cosmopolitan's guide to fortune-telling #cosmopolitan #fortune-telling #magazine #tarot #tea leaf reading #palmestry #i ching #astrology #helen gurley brown #1977

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antiwaradvocates · 2 months

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#Claudia Jones #Emma Tenayuca #Dorothy Burnham #Margaret Cowl #Williana Burroughs #Elizabeth Gurley Flynn #communism #international women's day

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joemusclefan · 29 days

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Alq Gurley

#Alq Gurley #bodybuilding #muscle #FLEX Magazine

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 2 years

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Janis Joplin , Big Brother & The Holding Company

#Janis Joplin #BluesRock Psychedelic band formed 1965 in San Francisco California USA.#Psychedelic Rock /Acid Rock/blues Rock #acid rock #classic rock #Janis Joplin - vocals #James Gurley - guitar #Sam Andrew - guitar #Peter Albin - bass #Dave Getz - drums #USA

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stinkygirl009 · 10 months

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OK HEAR ME OUT…..

Miguel likes- wait no LOVES that you like crystals, Like he loves how when your bored you put crystals on his head while he’s laying down.

“Jeez how any more are you going to put on me?” He chuckles.

“SHH!! Just one moreeee” you add one more on his head.

I JUST KNOW HE LIKES IT🤭🤭

#miguel x reader #miguel o'hara #miguel spiderman #miguel spiderverse #spider man: across the spider verse #fypppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp #imagine #miguel imagine #crystals #for those Crystal Gurleys

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garadinervi · 1 year

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Marika Sherwood, Claudia Jones. A Life in Exile, with Donald Hinds, Colin Prescod, and the 1996 Claudia Jones Symposium, Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1999, p. 24

#graphic design #poetry #book #claudia jones #elizabeth gurley flynn #donald hinds #colin prescod #claudia jones symposium #lawrence & wishart #1970s #1990s

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notchainedtotrauma · 10 months

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those women are among us. among you. who know more about their power than can be tolerated. so they do not aim for toleration. they go straight for love.

from Dub: Finding Ceremony by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Girls Trippin' from A Black Lady Sketch Show starring Gabrielle Dennis, Skye Townsend, Tamara Jade, Angel Laketa Moore, Robin Thede, DaMya Gurley

#Alexis Pauline Gumbs #A Black Lady Sketch Show #Gabrielle Dennis #Skye Townsend #Tamara Jade #Angel Laketa Moore #DaMya Gurley #Youtube

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judgingbooksbycovers · 1 year

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