It’s not often that you find a bag of money when you’re opening a store, but Amanda Woody did. The owner of Mandy’s Beauty Supply got the keys to her first store in Okmulgee nine years ago.
“My husband and I, we were like, ‘Oh my God, this is a blessing. We got some free money,’” Woody said.
She moved to Tulsa from Houston in 2001 and spent over a decade working as a surgical assistant. It wasn’t until she and her husband watched a documentary about the lack of Black-owned beauty supply stores that they began to pursue their own…