Conclusion From The Town Once Named Alsuma.

The biggest determining factor that I was able to find as to the reason of why people lived in Alsuma had nothing to do with race but rather with poverty.  The desire to own one's own home appears to be the determining factor.  64% of the residents during the 1940 Census owned their own home.  Although their homes were worth 12% of the median cost of a home in 1940 compared to the rest of the homes in Oklahoma; the home was theirs.  The dirt under it and the walls which contained their life was owned by them.

Alsuma was not as it has been described in Tulsa urban myth  a "Black town."  It was a town where poor people lived together unified by their poverty without much regard for the color of their skin.  This lesson alone is enough reason for all of us to learn from the experience of the Town once known as Alsuma.

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