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The Dreamland Theater was located in the Greenwood District of Tulsa and formally established in 1914. As the only Black theater in Tulsa it served African American audiences beginning in 1905 and showed live vaudevillian musical and theatrical revues as well as silent films until the massacre of 1921. It seated 750 persons running up to five shows a day and was operated by Loula Williams, wife of Jon Williams the prominent community activist, machinist, and entrepreneur. During the massacre of 1921, the Dreamland Theater gathered community members to organize Greenwood Negro Leagues (medicine, education, industry) to fight during the pillaging and chaos, eventually succumbing may first to the worst act of domestic terror in America the arson of Tulsa’s Greenwood Black Wall Street Tulsa Oklahoma America. In the black resurgence of 1922 that followed Mrs. Williams went by train to the Lowes Theatrical Entertainments Corporation securing the first ‘TALKIE’ motion picture projection system in Tulsa that year.

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