Jersey State Conference of NAACP Branch Award 2006-2009 GREENWOOD ROSEWOOD MALL
The Experience of a ‘Black Shopping Mall’
Greenwood-Rosewood Project
Recreate the prosperity experienced by the Greenwood and Rosewood communities by encouraging the 1.4 million African Americans living in New Jersey, to support African-American owned businesses in the State and elsewhere.
Advertising on the site is free. The site will be updated every other month.
Patronize at least 12 businesses and bring proof to our Kwanzaa Celebration on December 8th, 2011. Your name will be entered into our raffle drawings at the celebration.
Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Rosewood in Levy County, Florida were two of the most successful and wealthiest African American communities in the United States during the early 20th Century. Ironically, these two communities shared the same fate – decimation by race riots, the two worst in the nation’s history, i.e., The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 and the Rosewood Massacre of 1923.
Popularly known as America's "Black Wall Street”, Greenwood boasted a variety of successful businesses, as African Americans (because of segregation), were forced to spend their dollars at their own shops; stimulating their own economy 26 times before the dollars went elsewhere.
Rosewood, a quiet, primarily black, self-sufficient town, handled the transportation of cedar wood and other commodities for the Railroad. But the violent, racially motivated conflict put an end to its existence. The black residents abandoned the town never to return.
Remember: Buy and bank where Blacks benefit as owners or employees; support selective patronage efforts that contribute to the wealth and development of Black people.
VISIT THE Greenwood-Rosewood BLACK-OWNED SHOPPING MALL
Contact us to add your business to the Mall