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.
Much of the acrimony in Tulsa revolves around the issue of reparations for the 1921 race massacre, which left as many as 300 dead, 10,000 homeless and destroyed one of the most prosperous Black neighborhoods in the country.