Friendship Missionary Baptist Church brought together organizations interested in revitalizing Charlotte’s “Black Wall Street ...

Monroe Nichols supports “significant elements” of the measure to recompense the families of Black people killed or left ...

The Brooklyn neighborhood was established in the late 1860's. At its height it was a thriving black business center and an African American city within a city known as Black Wall Street.

The son of slaves, Ottaway Gurley would become a multi-millionaire and one of the richest African-Americans in the country.