Ultimately, Greenwood—the famous "Black Wall Street"—was destroyed twice: once by a white supremacist mob in 1921, and again by highway construction and "urban renewal" in the 1960s. More from Smithsonian Mag: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/black-wall-streets-second-destruction-180977871/

Like many other residents of Greenwood whose homes and businesses were burned, the Williams defied the hastily enacted policies which the city had passed to prevent the neighborhood’s reconstruction (rezoning much of it to industrial).

John & Loula Williams rebuilt the Williams Dreamland Theater after a white supremacist mob destroyed it and the rest of Greenwood in the 1921 massacre. The theater was a mainstay of the rebuilt neighborhood until Tulsa's Black Wall St. was destroyed again in the 1960s by construction of I-244.