Leah HopeChicagoans in the Greenwood Project, named in honor of Black Wall Street, participated in the stock market Opening Bell at the NYSE on Tuesday.Several Chicagoans who aspire to have careers in the finance industry were invited to do the Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday.
French was among the seven scholars and two alumni of the Greenwood Project to take part Tuesday morning. "It's a kind of joyous feeling to know that these are not opportunities that are presented to everyone, and sometimes, you know that they may not realize the opportunity got for another five, 10, 15 years," Smith said.The name of the organization is in honor of what had been called Black Wall Street, the Greenwood community which was destroyed in the 1921 Tulsa massacre.