GREENWOOD is a visit to the growing metropolis of Tulsa, Oklahoma at the dawn of the Roaring 20s.

Tulsa is dominated by a man who is determined to make Tulsa the  equal of New York and Chicago.

When William ``Boss Wheatley’’ Hogg arrived near the turn of the 20th century, it was an exaggeration to call Tulsa a cow town. Its streets were littered with dung, its water was suspect and its citizens were indifferent to commerce and the criminal element. But it was Hogg’s vision to make it the oil capital of the world.

With brilliance, hard work and imagination Hogg, backed by like-minded men, lured to Tulsa industries and businesses that supplied wildcatters and Standard Oil with the equipment needed to drill for black gold. By 1920, the fast-growing town had earned the nickname ``Magic City.''

Tulsa became a pristine city, with modern office buildings, electric street cars, and a South Side that was home to men whose names, Phillips, Sinclair and Getty, became legendary.

This is also the world of Sarah Page.

Tulsa’s paved roads, modern sewer system, new schools and parks were not for North Siders.

But the people of Greenwood are equally determined to make their corner of Oklahoma thrive.

These are people whose very being are rooted in slavery. The elderly ones haven’t forgotten the lash, or the loss of mother, fathers, sisters and brothers. But they will not be defined by slavery.

GREENWOOD introduces L.J. McSpadden, the richest Negro in Oklahoma, the owner of a fabulous hotel and other properties. But he serves his community well by fighting every legal obstacle Oklahoma’s establishment throws in the path of Negro advancement.

We also meet the businessmen, doctors, lawyers, educators, day laborers, cooks and cleaning women who help bring the area, with its dusty streets, sewage filled gutters and unremitting poverty, to life.

This is the world of Richard Rowland.

GREENWOOD is more than a tale of two star-crossed lovers. It tells the story of two communities that believe they are independent of each other, but are totally dependent.

It tells of the greed, envy and hatred that only needed the misunderstood encounter of Sarah Page and Richard Rowland to ignite a rampage that ends in the destruction of one community.