Black Wall Streets: The Business Districts They Built — Interactive Edition

Black Wall Streets: The Business Districts They Built by Carlos L. Young Sr. — Interactive Edition. Volume 5 of the "Left Out of the History Books" series. 88 chronological entries across four eras: Roots to 1900; The Great Districts 1900–1935; Pressure & Survival 1935–1970; and Legacy & Revival 1970–present. The great Black business districts — Tulsa's Greenwood, Durham's Parrish Street, Richmond's Jackson Ward, Chicago's Bronzeville, Atlanta's Auburn Avenue, Houston's wards and more — plus Black-owned banks and insurance companies, and the entrepreneurs behind them. Each entry includes sourced numbers, a concrete example of its effect in practice, and a "where it stands" status note. Contested claims, including the documented 1903 Richmond origin of the name "Black Wall Street," are printed openly. Print edition is 66 pages. Interactive Edition features: a clickable timeline, full-text search, font controls, Read Aloud, bookmarks, and a 10-question educator quiz. You receive a single self-contained interactive HTML ebook file in a ZIP download, to open in any modern web browser.