A caucus from Congress came to Tulsa, Okla. to dedicate a prayer wall at Vernon A.M.E. Church. The church is one of the only buildings to remain partially standing from the massacre where so many people took refuge.
The commission sponsoring the Remember & Rise event Monday said they agreed to provide $100,000 to each of the three survivors, along with $2 million in seed money for a reparations fund.
For the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the New York Times has released an interactive experience, What the Tulsa Massacre Destroyed, that takes viewers through the streets of a digitally created and historically accurate Greenwood neighborhood, demonstrating the destruction the massacre created. Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma was considered the “Black Wall Street” in the 1920s and after a group of Black individuals tried to stop the lynching of a Greenwood resident, a mob of white people from the next town over opened fire on the small town, inciting what is still known as the singular worst display of racial violence the country has ever seen.
The last remaining survivors are fighting for reparations. City leaders are building a $30 million museum. Here s a look at how Tulsa is grappling with.