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Direct payment of reparations to descendants of the survivors of the Tulsa Massacre; A scholarship fund available to students affected by the Tulsa Massacre; Establishment of an economic development enterprise zone in the historic area of the Greenwood District; A memorial for the reburial of the remains of the victims of the Tulsa Race Riot [2]
The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, [12] was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist [13] [14] massacre [15] that took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of whom had been appointed as deputies and armed by city government officials, [16] attacked black residents and destroyed homes and ...
A key part of the work was coverage of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, in which about 150 Blacks were killed by White residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Damon Lindelof was inspired by learning of the Tulsa massacre from "The Case for Reparations" in developing the 2019 television series Watchmen. The series features the Tulsa massacre as a central ...
Viola Fletcher (née Ford; born May 10, 1914), also known as Mother Fletcher, is the oldest known living survivor of the Tulsa race massacre and a supercentenarian.One hundred years after the massacre, she testified before Congress about the need for reparations.
The iterative nature of dignity restoration is also illustrated by legal scholar Alfred Brophy in his case study of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, which involved the looting, burning, and destruction of African American property in Greenwood District, Tulsa, Oklahoma following the community’s resistance to an extrajudicial lynching. [14]
People involved in the Tulsa race massacre (15 P) W. ... Tulsa Reparations Coalition This page was last edited on 21 November 2024, at 09:48 (UTC). ...
T. D. Evans was the Mayor of Tulsa from 1920 to 1922. [8] He was mayor during the 1921 Tulsa race massacre . [ 5 ] After the massacre, he blamed it on a "negro uprising" and advocated for building a railroad and rail station in the Greenwood District .
Attorneys for the two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre said Thursday they will petition the Oklahoma Supreme Court for a rehearing in the case seeking reparations for one of the ...