Whether he is surviving on the streets of  Vinita, OK, or thriving on Tulsa's Greenwood Avenue, "Diamond Dick" Rowland has a unique charm that endears himself to his audience. Unfortunately for Dick, the angry mob outside of the Tulsa Courthouse is unaccommodating.

Dick has been arrested for the alleged assault of Sarah Page, an elevator operator and a young white woman; a claim both The Tulsa World newspaper and the Tulsa police force find dubious. The questionable nature of the accusation isn't enough to dissuade Richard Lloyd Jones, editor in chief of the Tulsa Tribune, from writing a scathing editorial calling on the white citizens of Tulsa to "nab" Dick Rowland to enact some vigilante justice.

With his life in the balance all Dick can do is wait in his cell and pray just like his Aunt Damie taught him. This arrest also comes one year after a KKK mob lynched a white man named Roy Belton. With the white community willing to lynch one of their own, what fresh horrors await Dick Rowland and the rest of Black Wall Street?

Damie Rowland is a God-fearing businesswoman with a big heart. Shortly after meeting and adopting a young orphan boy named Jimmie Jones, she packed up shop and migrated to the "Negro Promised Land" of Tulsa, OK. 

While trying to realize the American Dream, Damie is also challenged with raising a young black boy in the Jim Crow era. Jimmie is coming into his own; changing his name to "Diamond Dick" Rowland and embracing the "New Negro" philosophies of black self-awareness and empowerment. As this shift in personality is further solidified, Damie's ability to steer Dick away from a worldly lifestyle of his peers is waning. 

Her worst nightmare as a black mother comes true when Dick is implicated in assaulting Sarah Page, a white woman, and is subsequently arrested. With the Klan violence at a fever pitch, Damie is no longer able to protect her son from the harsh realities of being a black man in Jim Crow America and has to wrestle with her own powerlessness in the face of a segregated South. 

You would be hard pressed to find a better Greenwood success story than that of the Williams family and its chief entrepreneurial architect, Loula Williams. 

She leveraged her husband's talent for fixing automobile engines and created "The Land of Popcorn and Sugar;" a string of business operations that include an automobile garage, a confectionery, and the famous Dreamland Theater. The Williams Confectionery is the home base for Negro social life in Tulsa and the central hub for the Thursday night Promenade; the weekly day off for the Black working class where the Greenwood residents get gussied up, strut their stuff, and circulate their hard-earned dollars throughout the Black community. 

Loula is a shrewd businesswoman with an empire to protect but she is also a black woman and understands the need to take a stand against oppressive forces of the time. 

As the First Negro Businessman of Greenwood, O.W. Gurley has seen many economic trends come and go but fewer businessmen knew more about buying something for a dollar and selling it for two. 

Despite conducting business solely on the "other side of the tracks", Gurley has ingratiated himself to the elite white business class of Tulsa through his instincts and ruthlessness. When Dick Rowland is arrested and a mob forms to lynch him, Gurley views the situation as a business proposition. Too many legacies have been built by the black people of Greenwood. If white people are able to lynch one of their own, they are liable to do worse to a black man and his community. 

To satiate the blood-lust of the mob and to save the hard-earned money generated by the Greenwood Gentry, Gurley states that the practical choice is to appease the mob by handing over the boy. 

During The Great War, O.B. Mann witnessed firsthand the worst parts of humanity. Despite fighting for the United States, he was still relegated to second-class status by his white peers in his own country. His social standing is highlighted when juxtaposed against the humane treatment he received from the citizens and soldiers from foreign lands.  

In addition to the lynching of Roy Belton, the 2 year anniversary of "The Red Summer" of 1919 is quickly approaching. During the summer of 1919 there were over 2 dozen race massacres where white mobs descended onto black communities and burned them to the ground. With the arrest of Dick Rowland and the accumulation of a white crowd outside of the Tulsa courthouse, Mann sees the writing on the wall for the Greenwood community and vows to do whatever it takes to protect his community and his people. Can he convince the rest of the Greenwood Gentry to follow him on this crusade? 

When it comes to black excellence in late 19th, early 20th century America, there are few individuals more decorated and well respected than Captain Townsend D. Jackson. A veteran of the Civil War, “The Old Lawman” used his experience in warfare to create the first all-black militias in both Memphis, TN and Guthrie, OK. Having faced the Confederacy, the Klan, and many criminals of all colors while working in law enforcement, Captain Jackson is immediately held in high regard within the Greenwood Gentry. 

After being driven from Guthrie in 1913 due to the growing tensions regarding his militia, Captain Jackson moves to Tulsa, OK and gives a speech in Tulsa where he advocates for the industriousness of the black community in lieu of militant resistance as the path to success in America. The Captain’s own son, Dr. Andrew C. Jackson, is a living example of this mindset. Dr. A.C. Jackson is a well respected surgeon to the esteem of the Mayo brothers and a shining example of the black excellence of Greenwood. Once the people see how far the Greenwood community, and by extension all of the negro race, has come in the relatively short period since the Civil War they will finally see the error in their ways and recognize the humanity of black folk. 

This stance surprised many of the more militant voices on the “equality question” but when someone like “The Old Lawman”, who has faced the worst humanity had to offer and lived speaks, his people will follow. 

“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom." - John Locke

After presiding over the hanging of an innocent black boy, Sheriff McCullough vowed never to allow mob rule to circumvent the judicial process. Despite the Ku Klux Klan's growing political and economic influence, McCullough is unwavering in his resolve. The Good Sheriff puts his credibility and safety on the line by rebuffing the Kleagles' request to hand over Dick Rowland. 

To McCullough, the law is about preventing the dregs of society from dragging the rest of the world down with them. The Good Sheriff takes the immortal words of John Locke to heart: "For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.” 

Richard Lloyd-Jones has some large shoes to fill. His father, Jenkin Lloyd-Jones, was a Civil War veteran, Founder of the All Souls Unitarian Church in Chicago, and a progressive voice during a time of deep social unrest. But even after purchasing Abraham Lincoln's childhood home to preserve as a historical landmark or buying a newspaper and becoming editor-in-chief of the Tulsa Tribune, Richard still cannot garner the same levels of esteem as his father. 

As a Renaissance man, Richard Lloyd Jones knows how to recognize the changing of the tide. Ever since D.W. Griffith's epic film Birth of a Nation, The Ku Klux Klan has reemerged and has been fomenting racial violence and gaining political power. Jones recognizes that messages of peace and unity between the races wouldn't sell papers nor would it curry any favor with the growing political force that is the Klan. 

After finding out about the arrest of Dick Rowland from his inside source at the courthouse it only made sense for him to write an editorial that called for the good citizens of Tulsa to "Nab the negro." Richard might not be able to move people to Christ at a camp meeting like his father but he can ignite the fire of hate and anger in their hearts and move them to action. 

At a time when women have just won the right to participate in the civil process, Amy Comstock is also rising fast in the male dominated career of journalism.  She has found a mentor in the firebrand that is Richard Lloyd-Jones. With his tutelage and hands on approach to guidance, Amy is given access to the upper echelons of professional society and political power; a position that would have been unheard of in previous generations. 

As the person who dictated Jones' "Nab the negro" editorial she had a direct hand in shaping the lives of countless people of any color and gender in Tulsa, OK. 

The once-maligned Ku Klux Klan has seen a resurgence after D.W. Griffith's Birth of A Nation film premiered in 1915. With the added notoriety from the film, there has been a concerted effort from the Klan to recruit more followers for this Christian Nationalist organization and there is no greater recruiting phenomenon for the Klan than a race riot. 

After hearing of the outrage building up after the Tulsa Tribune article calling to "Nab the negro" for assaulting a white woman in an elevator, the Klan sends 3 Kleagles, or recruiters, to fan the flames of outrage in the white community and to procure the young Dick Rowland for a lynching. When Sheriff McCullough rejects their requests for the boy, the Kleagles exercise their influence over the crowd by increasing the temperature to dangerous levels.  

The Greenwood Gentry is the heart and soul of Black Wall Street.

This choir represents the white citizenry of Tulsa, OK.