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Help me understand the evolution of the methods that white supremacy used to strip, steal, and suppress Black wealth.

Civil War ended 1865, goes into Jim Crow laws. Black wealth in the 1920s was stolen and demolished by the 1921 Tulsa Massacre (and presumably other similar events).

Golden Twenties for white people a presumably at least partially fueled by wage theft and large scale theft of Black wealth.

Then depression (1929-1941), WWII (1930s to 1945), Black civil rights movement (1960s).

Here's the part I want to understand: Black wealth on a wide scale hasn't seem to grow to the degree of Black Wall Street and Black Washington since the great depression. I presume that's because white supremacist actions become more subtle. More wage theft, redlining, etc, less (nonzero) mass bombing of Black wealth.

How did the systemic elements suppressing Black wealth evolve between 1870 and 2020? Redlining and wage theft are clear examples. I'm interested in not just what but *how*.

#WhiteSupremacy #TulsaMassacre