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Dreamland Theater

@dreamlandtulsa.bsky.social

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Community legacy institution of the historic Greenwood district aka Black Wall Street of Tulsa, Oklahoma. est~1914 What’s your Dreamland?

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Dreamland Theater @dreamlandtulsa.bsky.social · Apr 24

Looking forward and back on ancestral contributions to the built environment and social fabric of our community. “Descended from the Promised Land: The Legacy of Black Wall Street” #BlackWallStreet

Dreamland Theater @dreamlandtulsa.bsky.social · Apr 24

Join us Saturday April 26th in Greenwood at OSU-Tulsa auditorium.

“Descended from the Promise Land: The Legacy of Black Wall Street,” features descendants of the Williams family who built the original Dreamland Theatre and stories of the original founders as community members and visionaries.

Dreamland Theater @dreamlandtulsa.bsky.social · Dec 1

We center Black, Indigenous, and marginalized narratives in film and other media. Our curatorial focus is on land, liberation, and transformation. We seek utopian visions of what could be and has been and facilitate dialogues of how to manifest equitable transformations of our built environment.

Segregation by Design @segbydesign.bsky.social · Aug 10

Ultimately, Greenwood—the famous "Black Wall Street"—was destroyed twice: once by a white supremacist mob in 1921, and again by highway construction and "urban renewal" in the 1960s. More from Smithsonian Mag: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/black-wall-streets-second-destruction-180977871/

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Dreamland Theater @dreamlandtulsa.bsky.social · Dec 1

We owe so much to the very real people and their values that built this undying utopian image of what was and can be. We ask audiences, “What is your Dreamland,” and affirm that other worlds are possible past, present, and future.

Segregation by Design @segbydesign.bsky.social · Aug 10

Like many other residents of Greenwood whose homes and businesses were burned, the Williams defied the hastily enacted policies which the city had passed to prevent the neighborhood’s reconstruction (rezoning much of it to industrial).

Dreamland Theater @dreamlandtulsa.bsky.social · Dec 1

Today we work with the descendants of the Williams family as accountability partners in bring Dreamland into a contemporary context. We use film to spark community imagination around who we are as individuals, as a community, and around the future and lands we share.

Segregation by Design @segbydesign.bsky.social · Aug 10

John & Loula Williams rebuilt the Williams Dreamland Theater after a white supremacist mob destroyed it and the rest of Greenwood in the 1921 massacre. The theater was a mainstay of the rebuilt neighborhood until Tulsa's Black Wall St. was destroyed again in the 1960s by construction of I-244.

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