Black Wall Street Social Learning Theory

During the early 20th century, many African-American men and women established lifestyles for themselves, in which would help improve their community, as well as develop independence among the black population. Taking place in the city of Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma, many African American scholars, engineers, doctors, lawyers, inventors, bankers, teachers, and businessmen emerged from the momentous " Black Wall Street", creating a group of intelligent wealthy high-profiled individuals. The influential " Black Wall Street" was short-lived in its significance due to the 1921 race riots in Tulsa. At that time, many people of the white race were opposed to African Americans and their high achieved level of success and accomplishments, therefore …show more content…
A city that once established prominence, now lost it driving, in which was the people working to advance the black community. Focusing on the children from both sides of the event in relation to the social learning theory, many attempts could have been made to breathe new life into the City of Greenwood. The remaining residents could have chartered a new community of intellectuals and black businesses by examining the lifestyles of the previous Greenwood residents, but due to this event in Tulsa many people gave up and lost their willpower. In my assessment of this ordeal I am bewildered by the fact that something so positive and beneficial to the African American Community could be annihilated on the basis of pure hatred, jealousy and ignorance. It is very despairing to know that innocent people who want nothing more, but better for themselves were massacred out of spite. The people and the offspring of those affected by the riots should receive reparations, and therefore a new Black Wall Street should be reconstructed on behalf of the many people who lost their