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Tulsa mayor unveils $105M race massacre reparations plan

Democratic Oklahoma mayor unveils $100 million reparations-style plan for 1921 Tulsa race riot

The Democratic mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma, released a plan seeking to compensate descendants of residents affected by racial violence over a century ago. On Sunday, Mayor Monroe Nichols announced Road to Repair,

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Tulsa’s First Black Mayor Announces $105 Million Reparations Plan To ‘Repair’ Impact Of 1921 Race Massacre

Mayor Monroe Nichols’ “Road to Repair” plan centers on a trust aiming to raise the $105 million by the massacre’s 105th anniversary in 2026.

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Tulsa mayor unveils reparation plan to 'repair' community at center of 1921 Race Massacre

The massacre is reported to have started with an accusation that Dick Rowland, a 19-year-old shoe-shiner, assaulted a white female teenager in an elevator. Decades later, the 2001 Tulsa Race Riot Commission concluded, Sarah Page, 17, was interviewed by police but made no allegations of assault.

The Tulsa Race Massacre was a taboo subject when Ed Wheeler's story published in 1971

The late Ed Wheeler, a retired Oklahoma National Guard brigadier general and former Tulsa Community College history ...

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Fact check: Devastating 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre wasn't worst U.S. riot, isn't ignored in books

An extensive examination of the incident can be found in the "Tulsa Race Riot A Report by the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921." The official report from 2000 is ...

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Tulsa Race Massacre — This Happened: May 31

On this day in 1921, the Tulsa Race Massacre, also known as the Tulsa Race Riot, began in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, ...

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Tulsa Race Massacre: For years it was called a riot. Not anymore. Here's how it changed.

But overtures from the public could not be ignored. Formed in 2017, the then-Tulsa Race Riot Centennial Commission later decided to refer to the event as a massacre “based on community input.” ...

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In 2 U.S. cities haunted by race massacres, facing the past is painful and divisive

It was only after fielding a call from an overseas journalist wanting to speak with someone about "the Tulsa race riot" that a colleague clued her in. "'You don't know, do you?'" she remembers the ...

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Judge throws out lawsuit for reparations over 1921 Tulsa race massacre

An Oklahoma judge threw out a lawsuit Friday that sought reparations for victims and descendants of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre ... for civil disobedience, riot, insurrection or rebellion ...

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It's Been 103 Years Since The Tulsa Race Massacre: Here's What You Should Know About The Continued Fight For Reparations

But it wasn’t until 1997, that “the Oklahoma state legislature established the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.” The commission made a recommendation for reparations ...

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This day in history

Beginning on the night of May 31, 1921, thousands of white citizens in Tulsa, Oklahoma descended on the city’s predominantly ...

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