Tulsa mayor proposes $100M reparations plan for descendants of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Tulsa's archetypal Black politician projected creating a $100 cardinal backstage spot arsenic portion of a reparations plan for the interaction of the Tulsa Race Massacre which took spot much than 100 years ago.

Mayor Monroe Nichols IV, elected politician successful November, says the spot would beryllium utilized to supply scholarships and lodging to the descendants of those impacted by the massacre. He clarified that the spot would not impact nonstop currency payments, however.

"For 104 years, the Tulsa Race Massacre has been a stain connected our city's history," Nichols said Sunday. "The massacre was hidden from past books, lone to beryllium followed by the intentional acts of redlining, a road built to choke disconnected economical vitality and the perpetual underinvestment of local, authorities and national governments."

"Now it's clip to instrumentality the adjacent large steps to restore," helium added.

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Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols IV speaks during the Legacy lawsuit for the Tulsa Race Massacre connected Sunday, June 1, 2025, astatine Greenwood Cultural Center successful Tulsa, Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Joey Johnson)

The backstage charitable spot would beryllium created with a extremity to unafraid $105 cardinal successful assets, with astir of the backing either secured oregon committed by June 1, 2026.

Nichols says the City Council would person to o.k. the transportation of immoderate metropolis assets to the trust.

The program calls for the bulk of the funding, $60 million, to spell toward improving buildings and revitalizing the city's northbound side.

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The Greenwood vicinity of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is burned down during a contention riot successful 1921. (AP)

"The Greenwood District astatine its tallness was a halfway of commerce," Nichols told the Associated Press. "So what was mislaid was not conscionable thing from North Tulsa oregon the Black community. It really robbed Tulsa of an economical aboriginal that would person rivaled anyplace other successful the world."

Nichols' propulsion comes conscionable weeks aft Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., announced plans to present the Reparations Now Resolution, which calls for the U.S. to walk trillions of dollars connected reparations for Black Americans.

Rep. Summer Lee has unveiled a measure aimed astatine giving reparations payments to descendants of slavery (Getty Images)

Lee's solution cites U.S. slavery, Jim Crow laws, and different racially discriminatory laws and policies to warrant spending trillions of dollars supporting the descendants of Black Americans successful the U.S.

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"That’s wherefore we admit that the combat to reconstruct Black folks has to beryllium truthful overmuch much substantive," she added.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.