THE BLACK WALL STREET

We were black settlers trying to find a place to call home

Langston had a dream, he wanted us to have a state to call our own

White America also had a dream, they had a different vision

north and south were the division

We took it and built with the little territory we were given...

Black entrepreneurs we started our own district

Bankers, Doctors, and Teachers

They didn’t believe we were smart enough to become readers

The Greenwood District we were alive, wealthy and thriving!

The white man feared to see us do more than just surviving!

If it wasn't Dick Rowland, they would have found another reason

By any means they were ready to call it treason

Red summers, and lynching season

Planes in the sky dropping bombs to kill us all

They torched everything to see our city fall

16 hours was all it took to burn our black city to the ground

They couldn't bear to see us try to snatch back our precious crowns