| FEATURED BOOKS THIS MONTH |
 Black
Wallstreet was the most affluent African American community and business
district in United States History. At the turn of the last century, Tulsa’s
black community was thriving with highly successful businesses.
Approximately ten black millionaires lived there. Six had private airplanes
in 1921. There were affluent black doctors, lawyers, educators,
entrepreneurs, oilmen and children.
This book is an attempt to inform our children of the tragedies that Black
people continue to suffer in the United States of America... |
 Rape of Paradise
by Jan Carew
Columbus and the Birth of Racism in America
On the
morning of October 12, 1492, a group of Tainos discovered Christopher
Columbus and a landing party from his flagship the Santa Maria on a beach of
Guanahani. There were 72 million Native Peoples in the Western Hemisphere in
1492 which plummeted in following centuries to perhaps 4 to 4.5 million – a
population about 6% of its former size. That American Indians exist today
and have shown recent population increases is a testament to perseverance
over a dark period of history... |
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