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Due to segregation laws that occurred at the time, the African American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma (known by locals as Black Wall Street) had become a rich and successful town. However, on May 31st 1921, screams came from a commercial building where a young white girl worked as an elevator operator. After an older white man saw a young black teenage boy who worked as a shoe shiner running from the building he made an assumption that the girl had been raped by the teen. Despite the girl never making a report of rape to the police, local authorities pressed charges against a black man that was being held at a police station. Fearing for the young man's life a group of African Americans gathered outside the police station, where a group of white people were already waiting. Fighting occurred, shots were fired and both black and white people were killed. As news spread about what happened, white people rampaged Greenwood in mobs of thousands, killing, looting and burning stores and homes in what was at the time the wealthiest black community. This was not a riot as so many white people later claimed. This was a massacre. This was murder. Born on April the 18th 1919 in South District, Ghana, Ocloo or affectionately known as 'Auntie Ocloo' left behind a truly inspirational legacy. After leaving school Ocloo became the first Ghanaian person to start up her own food processing business 'Nkulenu Industries' (with less than a dollar), selling marmalade and orange juice, in 1942. Ocloo went on to travel to England in 1949 to learn the latest techniques in food processing. By taking a course in 'Food Science and Modern Processing Techniques' at Bristol University. By 1953 she returned to her homeland determined to share the knowledge she had learned, in the hope of making Ghana become more self- sufficient. In addition to her business Occlo also wanted to empower low-income women, and went on to co-found the Women's World Banking (WWB) organisation, a global mirco-lending institution. Nowadays the WWB network lends to 16 million women and manages a loans portfolio of over 9 billion dollars! Dying of pneumonia in 2002, former Ghanaian President John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor described her as a "...worthy emulation in our efforts to build our nation. Her good works in the promotion of development in Ghana cannot be measured." GUESTLIST 2017 / ISSUE 98 13 GUESTLIST ESTHER AFUA OCLOO, GHANA'S FIRST LADY IN BUSINESS BLACK WALL STREET, AMERICAS SECRET MASSACRE Everyone has heard of New York City's famous 'Wall Street', a place where the rich wallow in their own wealth. But not everyone has heard of 'The Black Wall Street Massacre' that occurred on June 1st 1921. On April the 18th Google's 'doodle' day celebrated Ghanaian entrepreneur Esther Afua Ocloo on what would have been her 98th birthday.