The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, killed up to 300 Black residents and destroyed a neighborhood.
More than a century later, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday, the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.
Monroe Nichols, the first Black mayor of Tulsa, unveiled the sweeping project, named Road to Repair.
It is intended to chip away at enduring disparities caused by the massacre and its aftermath in the Greenwood neighborhood and the wider North Tulsa community in Tulsa, Okla.
“One hundred and four years is far too long for us to not address the harm of the massacre,” Mr. Nichols said in an interview before the announcement.
One of the most horrifying instances of racial violence in the United States was the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921. A. wiped out a neighborhood and killed up to 300 Black residents. In the first comprehensive plan to commit funds to address the impact of the atrocity, the mayor of the city announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday, more than a century later.
The comprehensive initiative, called Road to Repair, was introduced by Monroe Nichols, Tulsa’s first Black mayor. In the Greenwood neighborhood and the larger North Tulsa community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it aims to address long-standing inequalities brought about by the massacre and its aftermath.
In order to secure $105 million in assets, including private donations, property transfers, and potential public funding, by next spring, the 105th anniversary of the attack, the project’s main objective is to establish the Greenwood Trust, a private charitable trust.
The two remaining known survivors of the massacre, who are 110 and 111 years old, will not receive direct cash payments as part of the plan. However, Michelle Brooks, a city spokesperson, stated that the trust’s Board of Trustees might take such payments into account.
Dear Mr. Greenwood, which was so affluent prior to the attack that it gave rise to the moniker Black Wall Street, needed to be revitalized, according to Nichols.
“It is far too long for us to ignore the harm caused by the massacre,” Mr. Dot Nichols stated in an interview prior to the announcement. The endeavor, he continued, was primarily about “what has been taken from a people, and how do we restore that as best we can in 2025, proving we’re much different than we were in 1921.”. “.”.
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