Black Wall Street was a tragic event seen by many African Americans as a holocaust within America. Although a very tragic and very important historical event, it has been left out of many school books and has been talked about very little. In the early 1900s Tulsa, Oklahoma thrived as an all-black community. It was prosperous and was known to many as “Little Africa” and more famously as “Black Wall Street”. Chicago Race Riot – 1919 Cause of the Riots: An American fear of communist infiltration into American life, emerged. African Americans began to talk of their desires for racial equality. Many whites did not believe blacks deserved equal rights, although slavery had been outlawed in America since 1865. African Americans were branded as “radicals.” Many whites thought African Americans supported communism’s message of equality ·The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 was a major racial conflict that began in chicago,illinois on July 27, 1919 and ended on August 3 ·Thirty-eight people died and over five hundred were injured, 23 were African American & 15 were white ·On a segregated Chicago beach, a white man was throwing rocks at blacks in the water at a beach on the South Side which resulted in Eugene William's death ·Tensions escalated when a white police officer did not arrest the white man responsible for William's death but arrested a black man instead ·Many African Americans became victims of white mobs when they had to pass through white neighborhoods in order to reach their workplaces others were attacked on streetcars or in city parks and other public venues. ·The majority of the rioting and violence was concentrated in the “Black Belt” section, the predominantly black neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago ·When blacks began moving into white neighborhoods, whites responded violently, bombing 26 homes in the two years preceding the riot.