The Hidden Story of Black Wall Street You Never Heard Of Before Tulsa, there were many Black Wall Streets. Cities built by freed men and women who turned pain into prosperity. In Durham, North Carolina, Black bankers built insurance companies that rivaled white-owned firms. In Richmond, Virginia, “Jackson Ward” was called the Harlem of the South — a self-sustaining Black community of lawyers, doctors, and entrepreneurs. And in Oklahoma, long before Tulsa’s Greenwood district, entire all-Black to