Black History (O.W. Gurley)

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  • O.W. Gurley was a wealthy Black landowner, born to former enslaved Africans, who traveled the United States to take part in the Oklahoma Land Grab of 1889.
  • The young businessman resigned from a presidential appointment under then-president Grover Cleveland to venture out and found his own town.

 

O.W. Gurley, the Visionary Who Fostered Decades of Prosperity and Wealth for Black Folks with the Creation of Tulsa’s Black Wall Street