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The very first black mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma has revealed an enthusiastic reparations plan that would see more than $100 million bought the descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
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Mayor Monroe Nichols revealed on Sunday that the city is opening a $105 million charitable trust [comprising personal](https://realzip.com.au) funds to deal with concerns including housing, scholarships, land acquisition and economic advancement for north Tulsans.
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Of that money, $24 million will approach housing and own a home for the [descendants](https://costaricafsbo.com) of the attack that killed as lots of as 300 black people and razed 35 blocks, according to Public Radio Tulsa.
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Another $21 million will fund land acquisition, scholarship financing and economic development for the blighted north Tulsa community, and a massive $60 million will [approach cultural](https://lewisandcorealty.ca) conservation to enhance buildings in the as soon as thriving Greenwood community.
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'For 104 years, the Tulsa Race Massacre has actually been a stain on our city's history,' Nichols stated at an event celebrating [Race Massacre](https://www.vibhaconsultancy.com) Observance Day.
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'The massacre was hidden from history books, only to be followed by the deliberate acts of redlining, a highway developed to choke off financial vigor and the perpetual underinvestment of regional, state and federal governments.
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'Now it's time to take the next huge actions to restore.'
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But the proposition will not consist of direct money payments to the last recognized survivors, Leslie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, who are 110 and 111 years old.
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Mayor Monroe Nichols revealed on Sunday that the city is opening a $105 million charitable trust making up personal funds to resolve problems consisting of housing, scholarships, land acquisition and economic development for north Tulsans
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His plan does not consist of direct money payments to the last known survivors, Leslie Benningfield Randle (left) and Viola Fletcher (ideal), who are 110 and 111 years old. They are visualized in 2021
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They had actually been combating for reparations for many years, and earlier this year their attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons argued that any reparations prepare ought to include direct payments to the 2 survivors in addition to a victim's settlement fund for outstanding claims.
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However, a claim Solomon-Simmons - who likewise established the group Justice for Greenwood - was [overruled](https://casaduartelagos.com) in 2023 by an Oklahoma judge who stated the plaintiffs 'do not have unlimited rights to compensation.'
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The judgment was then maintained by the Oklahoma Supreme Court last year, moistening racial [justice supporters'](https://magnoliasresidence.com) hopes that the city would ever make financial amends.
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But after taking workplace earlier this year, Nichols said he evaluated previous propositions from local community companies like Justice for Greenwood.
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He then discussed his plan with the Tulsa City Council and descendants of the massacre victims.
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'What we wished 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 brought forth some recommendations,' Nichols said as he also vowed to continue to browse for mass graves believed to contain victims of the massacre and release 45,000 formerly categorized city records.
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No part of his strategy would need city council approval, the mayor kept in mind, and any fundraising would be conducted by an executive director whose salary will be spent for by personal funding.
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A Board of Trustees would also figure out how to distribute the funds.
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Still, the city council would need to license the transfer of any city residential or commercial [property](https://staystaycations.com) to the trust, something the mayor stated was highly likely.
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People take pictures at a Black Wall Street mural in the historic Greenwood area
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He described that a person of the points that actually stuck to him in these conversations was the damage of not simply what Greenwood was - with its dining establishments, theaters, hotels, banks and grocery stores - but what it could have been.
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'The Greenwood District at its height was a center of commerce,' he informed the Associated Press. 'So what was lost was not just something from North Tulsa or the black neighborhood. It in fact robbed Tulsa of an economic future that would have measured up to anywhere else worldwide.'
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'You would have had the center of oil wealth here and the center of black wealth here at the same time,' he added in his remarks to the Times. 'That would have made us a [financial juggernaut](https://estatedynamicltd.com) and would have probably made the city double in size.'
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Many at Sunday's event said they supported the plan, even though it does not include cash payments to the 2 senior survivors of the attack.
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As numerous as 300 [black individuals](https://meza-realestate.com) were killed in the 1921 Massacre, which razed 35 blocks in the then-prosperous Greenwood neighborhood
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The neighborhood was as soon as filled with dining establishments, theaters, hotels, banks and grocery stores before it was burned down
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Chief Egunwale Amusan, a survivor descendant, for example, said the he has actually worked for half his life to get reparations.
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'If [my grandpa] had been here today, it probably would have been the most restorative day of his life,' he told Public Radio Tulsa.
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Jacqueline Weary, a granddaughter of massacre survivor John R. Emerson, Sr., who owned a hotel and taxi business in Greenwood that were destroyed, on the other hand, acknowledged the political problem of giving money payments to [descendants](https://jrfrealty.com).
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But at the very same time, she wondered how much of her family's wealth was lost in the violence.
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'If Greenwood was still there, my grandpa would still have his hotel,' said Weary, 65.
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'It truly was our inheritance, and it was literally removed.'
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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
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Nichols stated the neighborhood was as soon as a center of commerce
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The violence in 1921 emerged after a white female told police that a black guy had grabbed her arm in an elevator in a downtown Tulsa industrial structure on May 30, 1921.
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The following day, police apprehended the male, who the Tulsa Tribune reported had tried to attack the lady. White individuals surrounded the court house, requiring the male be turned over.
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World War One veterans were among black males who went to the court house to face the mob. A white guy attempted to deactivate a black veteran and a shot sounded out, touching off even more violence.
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White individuals then robbed and burned buildings and dragged the black individuals from their beds and beat them, according to historic accounts.
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The white individuals were deputized by authorities and advised to shoot the black locals.
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Nobody was ever charged in the violence, which the federal government now categorizes as a 'collaborated military-style attack' by white residents, and not the work of an unruly mob.
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