Efforts to secure justice in the courts have failed due to the statute of limitations. No one has ever been held responsible for these crimes, the impacts of which black Tulsans still feel today. The massacre’s devastating toll, in terms of lives lost and harms in various ways, can never be fully repaired.įollowing the massacre, government and city officials, as well as prominent business leaders, not only failed to invest and rebuild the once thriving Greenwood community, but actively blocked efforts to do so. Property damage claims from the massacre alone amount to tens of millions in today’s dollars. Those who survived lost their homes, businesses, and livelihoods. A search for mass graves, only undertaken in recent years, has been put on hold due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The American Red Cross, carrying out relief efforts at the time, said the death toll was around 300, but the exact number remains unknown.
In what is now known as the “Tulsa Race Massacre,” the mob destroyed 35 square blocks of Greenwood, burning down more than 1,200 black-owned houses, scores of businesses, a school, a hospital, a public library, and a dozen black churches. Some members of the mob had been deputized and armed by city officials. In the span of about 24 hours between May 31 and June 1, 1921, a white mob descended on Greenwood, a successful black economic hub in Tulsa, Oklahoma then-known as “Black Wall Street,” and burned it to the ground. Right to an Effective Remedy and the Tulsa Race MassacreĪddressing Ongoing Structural Racism and the Legacy of Slaveryįull Report: The Case for Reparations in Tulsa
International Human Rights Law and Past Reparations Examples The Call for Reparations and Legal Justice The Fight for Reparations and Economic Justice in Tulsa Reverend Robert Turner of the historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, damaged in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, leads a reconciliatory pilgrimage of sorts from the Vernon AME to Tulsa City Hall every Wednesday, demanding “reparations now.” © 2019 Ian Maule/Tulsa World
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