Using virtual reality technology, the creators of Greenwood Avenue: Virtual Reality Experience aim to place viewers in Agnes’ shoes and bring the history of Black Wall Street back to life.
Greenwood, an economically prosperous but segregated black district in Tulsa, was nicknamed Black Wall Street by Booker T. Washington. Within a 14-hour period starting May 31, 1921, more than 1,000 white Tulsans, including members of the Ku Klux Klan, descended on Greenwood, looting, bombing and burning nearly the entire district to the ground.
The National Guard was called in to restore order, but too late to save 1,256 homes and an unknown number of lives taken in the massacre, more commonly known as the Tulsa race riot. At least 37 death certificates were issued, but most experts agree that casualties were higher.
She began the project three years ago at the University of Southern California, shortly after learning about the riot for the first time.
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