Mound Bayou was a thriving all-Black town founded by formerly enslaved men in 1887. It had Black doctors, Black schools, Black-owned banks, and its own hospital—long before Tulsa’s Black Wall Street. But they don’t teach this. This is one of those Black history facts you didn’t know because they tried to erase it. These are Black history facts not taught in school. This is Black history that is not taught in schools because it proves we’ve always built power and community on our own. These are A
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Mound Bayou was a thriving all-Black town founded by formerly enslaved men in 1887. It had Black doctors, Black schools, Black-owned banks, and its own hospital—long before Tulsa’s Black Wall Street. But they don’t teach this. This is one of those Black history facts you didn’t know because they tried to erase it. These are Black history facts not taught in school. This is Black history that is not taught in schools because it proves we’ve always built power and community on our own. These are A
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