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<br>The first black mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma has actually revealed an ambitious reparations plan that would see more than $100 million invested in the descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.<br>[moolatalk.com](http://www.moolatalk.com/) |
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<br>Mayor Monroe Nichols revealed on Sunday that the city is opening a $105 million charitable trust consisting of personal funds to resolve issues including housing, scholarships, land acquisition and financial development for north Tulsans.<br> |
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<br>Of that money, $24 million will go towards housing and home ownership for the descendants of the attack that eliminated as many as 300 black individuals and razed 35 blocks, according to Public Radio Tulsa.<br> |
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<br>Another $21 million will money land acquisition, scholarship financing and financial development for the [blighted north](https://jassbrar.ca) Tulsa community, and a massive $60 million will go toward cultural preservation to enhance buildings in the when flourishing Greenwood neighborhood.<br> |
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<br>'For 104 years, the Tulsa Race Massacre has actually been a stain on our city's history,' Nichols stated at an occasion commemorating Race Massacre Observance Day.<br> |
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<br>'The massacre was concealed from history books, just to be followed by the deliberate acts of redlining, a highway constructed to choke off financial vigor and the perpetual underinvestment of local, state and federal governments.<br> |
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<br>'Now it's time to take the next huge steps to bring back.'<br> |
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<br>But the proposal will not include direct cash payments to the last recognized survivors, Leslie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, who are 110 and 111 years of ages.<br> |
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<br>Mayor Monroe Nichols revealed on Sunday that the city is opening a $105 million charitable trust making up private funds to resolve issues including housing, scholarships, land acquisition and economic advancement for north Tulsans<br> |
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<br>His strategy does not include direct cash [payments](https://asmauburn.com) to the last known survivors, Leslie Benningfield Randle (left) and Viola Fletcher (best), who are 110 and 111 years of ages. They are pictured in 2021<br> |
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<br>They had actually been defending reparations for many years, and previously this year their lawyer Damario Solomon-Simmons argued that any reparations prepare ought to consist of direct payments to the two survivors along with a victim's payment fund for impressive claims.<br> |
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<br>However, a claim Solomon-Simmons - who also established the group Justice for Greenwood - was overruled in 2023 by an Oklahoma judge who stated the plaintiffs 'don't have unlimited rights to compensation.'<br> |
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<br>The ruling was then promoted by the [Oklahoma Supreme](https://overseas-realestate.com) Court last year, moistening racial justice advocates' hopes that the city would ever make financial amends.<br> |
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<br>But after taking workplace earlier this year, Nichols stated he reviewed previous propositions from local community companies like Justice for Greenwood.<br> |
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<br>He then discussed his plan with the Tulsa City [Council](https://shubhniveshpropmart.com) and descendants of the massacre victims.<br> |
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<br>'What we wanted to do was find a way in which we might take in a number of these recommendations, so that it's reflective of the descendant community, of the folks that produced some suggestions,' Nichols stated as he also vowed to to browse for [mass graves](https://dentalbrokerflorida.com) thought to consist of victims of the massacre and release 45,000 previously categorized city records.<br> |
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<br>No part of his strategy would require city council approval, the mayor noted, and any fundraising would be carried out by an executive director whose wage will be paid for by personal funding.<br> |
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<br>A Board of Trustees would also determine how to disperse the funds.<br> |
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<br>Still, the city board would need to license the transfer of any city residential or commercial property to the trust, something the mayor stated was extremely likely.<br> |
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<br>People take images at a Black Wall Street mural in the historical Greenwood area<br> |
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<br>He discussed that one of the points that actually stuck to him in these discussions was the damage of not just what [Greenwood](https://onestopagency.org) was - with its restaurants, theaters, hotels, banks and supermarket - but what it might have been.<br> |
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<br>'The Greenwood District at its height was a center of commerce,' he told the Associated Press. 'So what was lost was not just something from North Tulsa or the black community. It actually robbed Tulsa of an economic future that would have measured up to anywhere else on the planet.'<br> |
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<br>'You would have had the center of oil wealth here and the center of black wealth here at the exact same time,' he included his remarks to the Times. 'That would have made us a financial juggernaut and would have probably made the city double in size.'<br> |
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<br>Many at Sunday's occasion said they supported the plan, although it does not consist of money payments to the 2 [elderly survivors](https://housingbuddy.in) of the attack.<br> |
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<br>As many as 300 black people were killed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, which razed 35 blocks in the then-prosperous Greenwood area<br> |
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<br>The neighborhood was when filled with dining establishments, theaters, hotels, banks and grocery stores before it was burned down<br> |
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<br>Chief Egunwale Amusan, a survivor descendant, for instance, said the he has actually worked for half his life to get reparations.<br> |
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<br>'If [my grandpa] had been here today, it probably would have been the most restorative day of his life,' he informed Public Radio Tulsa.<br> |
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<br>Jacqueline Weary, a granddaughter of massacre survivor John R. Emerson, Sr., who owned a hotel and cab company in Greenwood that were destroyed, on the other hand, acknowledged the political trouble of offering money payments to [descendants](https://www.homesofrockies.com).<br> |
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<br>But at the very same time, she wondered just how much of her family's wealth was lost in the violence.<br> |
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<br>'If Greenwood was still there, my grandpa would still have his hotel,' said Weary, 65.<br> |
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<br>'It truly was our inheritance, and it was literally taken away.'<br> |
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<br>A group of black were marched past the corner of second and Main Streets in Tulsa, under armed guard during the Tulsa Race Massacre on June 1, 1921<br> |
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<br>[Nichols](https://leonardleonard.com) said the community was once a center of commerce<br> |
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<br>The violence in 1921 erupted after a white lady told cops that a black guy had actually grabbed her arm in an elevator in a downtown Tulsa business building on May 30, 1921.<br> |
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<br>The following day, cops detained the guy, who the Tulsa Tribune reported had attempted to attack the female. White individuals surrounded the court house, requiring the man be turned over.<br> |
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<br>World War One veterans were among black males who went to the court house to face the mob. A white guy tried to deactivate a black veteran and a shot sounded out, touching off further [violence](https://www.munrorealty.com.au).<br> |
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<br>White people then robbed and burned structures and dragged the black individuals from their beds and beat them, according to historical accounts.<br> |
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<br>The white people were deputized by authorities and advised to shoot the black homeowners.<br> |
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<br>Nobody was ever charged in the violence, which the federal government now categorizes as a 'coordinated military-style attack' by white people, and not the work of a rowdy mob.<br> |
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