The Original Black Wall Street Before Tulsa's Greenwood District, Durham's Parrish Street and Hayti District were the original "Black Wall Street." In 1898, John Merrick—born enslaved, became a millionaire—co-founded North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company with Dr. Aaron Moore and Charles Spaulding. By 1906, they created a four-block economic empire on Parrish Street with over 120 Black-owned businesses including Mechanics and Farmers Bank (1907), one of America's first Black-owned banks. W

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