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<br>The very first black mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma has unveiled an enthusiastic reparations [prepare](https://theofferco.com) that would see more than $100 million bought the descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.<br>[finledger.com](https://finledger.com/author/corelogic/) |
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<br>Mayor Monroe Nichols announced on Sunday that the city is opening a $105 million charitable trust comprising private funds to resolve issues including housing, scholarships, land acquisition and economic advancement for north Tulsans.<br> |
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<br>Of that cash, $24 million will go toward housing and own a home for the descendants of the attack that killed as lots of as 300 black people and razed 35 blocks, according to [Public Radio](https://myassetpoint.com) Tulsa.<br> |
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<br>Another $21 million will money land acquisition, scholarship funding and financial advancement for the blighted north Tulsa neighborhood, and a tremendous $60 million will go toward cultural preservation to enhance buildings in the once prosperous Greenwood community.<br> |
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<br>'For 104 years, the Tulsa Race Massacre has actually been a stain on our city's history,' Nichols said at an occasion celebrating Race Massacre Observance Day.<br> |
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<br>'The massacre was concealed from [history](https://inpattaya.net) books, only to be followed by the deliberate acts of redlining, a highway developed to choke off financial vitality and the continuous [underinvestment](https://atofabproperties.com) of regional, state and .<br> |
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<br>'Now it's time to take the next big steps to bring back.'<br> |
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<br>But the proposal will not consist of direct money 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 consisting of personal funds to resolve issues including housing, scholarships, land acquisition and economic development for north Tulsans<br> |
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<br>His strategy does not include direct money payments to the last known survivors, [Leslie Benningfield](https://shofle.com) Randle (left) and Viola Fletcher (right), who are 110 and 111 years of ages. They are visualized in 2021<br> |
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<br>They had actually been defending reparations for years, and earlier this year their attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons argued that any reparations plan need to consist of direct payments to the two survivors as well as a victim's compensation fund for exceptional claims.<br> |
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<br>However, a suit Solomon-Simmons - who also established the group Justice for Greenwood - was struck down in 2023 by an Oklahoma judge who stated the plaintiffs 'do not have unlimited rights to payment.'<br> |
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<br>The ruling was then upheld by the Oklahoma Supreme Court last year, moistening racial justice supporters' hopes that the city would ever make monetary amends.<br> |
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<br>But after taking workplace previously this year, Nichols stated he reviewed previous proposals from regional neighborhood organizations like Justice for Greenwood.<br> |
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<br>He then discussed his plan with the Tulsa City Council and descendants of the [massacre victims](https://blumacrealtors.com).<br> |
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<br>'What we desired to do was find a method which we could take in a number of these recommendations, so that it's reflective of the descendant neighborhood, of the folks that brought forth some recommendations,' Nichols stated as he likewise swore to continue to look for mass graves believed to consist of victims of the massacre and release 45,000 formerly categorized city records.<br> |
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<br>No part of his strategy would need city council approval, the mayor noted, and any fundraising would be [performed](https://casaduartelagos.com) by an executive director whose salary will be spent for by personal financing.<br> |
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<br>A Board of Trustees would also [determine](https://www.ilfarmandrecland.com) how to distribute 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 highly most likely.<br> |
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<br>People take photos at a Black Wall Street mural in the historical Greenwood neighborhood<br> |
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<br>He described that one of the points that really stuck with him in these discussions was the damage of not just what Greenwood was - with its restaurants, theaters, hotels, banks and [grocery shops](https://pl-property.com) - however 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 in fact robbed Tulsa of an economic future that would have equaled anywhere else worldwide.'<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 an economic 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 include money payments to the 2 senior [survivors](https://www.eastpointeny.com) of the attack.<br> |
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<br>As many as 300 black people were eliminated in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, which razed 35 blocks in the then-prosperous Greenwood neighborhood<br> |
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<br>The community was as soon as filled with restaurants, 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 worked for half his life to get reparations.<br> |
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<br>'If [my grandpa] had actually been here today, it most likely would have been the most corrective day of his life,' he told 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 ruined, on the other hand, acknowledged the political trouble of giving money payments to descendants.<br> |
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<br>But at the same time, she questioned 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 rightfully was our inheritance, and it was literally eliminated.'<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 throughout the Tulsa Race Massacre on June 1, 1921<br> |
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<br>Nichols stated the community was when a center of commerce<br> |
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<br>The violence in 1921 erupted after a white lady told authorities that a black male had actually grabbed her arm in an elevator in a downtown Tulsa commercial structure on May 30, 1921.<br> |
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<br>The following day, authorities jailed the male, who the Tulsa Tribune reported had actually attempted to assault the female. White people surrounded the court house, demanding the man be handed over.<br> |
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<br>World War One veterans were amongst black guys who went to the courthouse to face the mob. A white male tried to deactivate a black veteran and a shot called out, touching off further violence.<br> |
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<br>White individuals then robbed and burned structures and dragged the black people from their beds and beat them, according to historical accounts.<br> |
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<br>The white individuals were deputized by authorities and advised to shoot the black locals.<br> |
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<br>Nobody was ever charged in the violence, which the federal government now classifies as a 'coordinated military-style attack' by white residents, and not the work of an unruly mob.<br> |
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