It took decades of research by historians and journalists — and reports by state and federal commissions — to uncover the violence that claimed more than 300 Black lives.

Tulsa Race Massacre killed at least 300 people, injured over 800 and reduced one of the most prosperous Black neighborhoods in America to smoldering ash. Monroe Nichols, the first Black mayor of Tulsa,

The campaign to bring restitution and repair to the damage done to the Black community of Tulsa, Oklahoma, continues, as the city’s mayor has unveiled a proposal to redress the century-old atrocity.