5-panel rope corduroy snapback with embroidered Greenwood Golf Club patch logo. This hat will be sold exclusively on this site and available in a very limited quantity.

Material: 100% Cotton

This snapback collection of fictitious Freedmen Golf Clubs represented on the hats are inspired by the various historical African-American Freedom Towns across the United States of America.

The Story of The Greenwood District:

Greenwood is a historic freedom colony in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As one of the most prominent concentrations of African-American businesses in the United States during the early 20th century, it was popularly known as America's "Black Wall Street".

The success of Black-owned businesses there led Booker T. Washington to visit in 1905 and encourage residents to continue to build and cooperate among themselves, reinforcing what he called "industrial capacity" and thus securing their ownership and independence. Washington highlighted that he had directed the creation of a 4,000 acre totally black-owned district on the edge of Tuskegee, under the supervision of C. W. Greene, to model Washington's vision; it was named Greenwood and formally organized in 1906. By 1921, it was home to about 10,000 black residents.

Not only was Greenwood, Tulsa expanding in population, but it was also expanding its physical boundaries, which eventually collided with the boundaries of white neighborhoods. According to several newspapers and articles at the time, there were reports of hateful letters sent to prominent business leaders within "Black Wall Street," which demanded that they stop overstepping their boundaries into the white segregated portion of Tulsa. White residents grew increasingly resentful about the wealth of the Greenwood community, which resulted in The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.

About 10,000 Black people were left homeless, and property damage amounted to more than $1.5 million in real estate and $750,000 in personal property (equivalent to $34.18 million in 2021). Many survivors left Tulsa, while Black and white residents who stayed in the city largely kept silent about the violence, and resulting losses for decades. The massacre was largely omitted from local, state, and national histories.

(Source: Greenwood District, Tulsa - Wikipedia)

As with all of our current & future Freedmen's Snapback releases, we will be making a donation to organizations that are actively working to diversify the game of golf. For The Greenwood District, we're making a donation to The Eastern Golf Club of Oklahoma City, which is a Oklahoma City based non-profit organization, working to provide an opportunity for the social and recreational benefits associated with the game of golf.