President Joe Biden has publically acknowledged one of the deadliest racial attacks in the history of the United States (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
As per the Tulsa Historical Society and Museum, following World War I, Tulsa was recognized nationally for its affluent African American community the aforementioned district was a thriving business hub. Its surrounding residential area was referred to as “Black Wall Street.”
The museum notes that the deadly riot’s cause came on the morning of May 30, 1921, when a young Black man named Dick Rowland was riding in the elevator in the Drexel Building at Third and Main with a White woman named Sarah Page. “The details of what followed vary from person to person. Accounts of an incident circulated among the city’s White community during the day and became more exaggerated with each telling,” the museum’s account added.
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The Tulsa City Council unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday night acknowledging and apologizing for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
It also says they and the mayor will establish a community-led process by the end of the year to look at various proposals for reconciliation, including those from a state commission 20 years ago that call for reparations. Still, the council made it clear reparations are not part of the resolution.
More than two dozen people at the council meeting to comment on the resolution were overwhelmingly in support of reparations and had the support of the Rev. Jesse Jackson; former Asheville, North Carolina Councilman Keith Young, the architect of that city s reparations plan; and Evanston, Illinois, Alderman Robin Rue Simmons, who led the charge in her city approving a first-in-the-nation reparations plan.
City Of Tulsa Awards $6.5M In COVID-19 Relief Funding To 74 Local Non-Profits
More than 70 local non-profits have been chosen by the City of Tulsa and the Tulsa City Council to receive their share of COVID-19 relief grants.
The grants are for community assistance and recovery initiations spread across 74 different advocacy groups totaling $6.5 million.
More than $1.4 million will go towards food security groups like Iron Gate, Meals on Wheels and Food on the Move. Another $1.3 million is going towards child development, including grants to the Tulsa Dream Center, The Opportunity Project and One Hope Tulsa.
Over $700,000 falls under housing services, it includes grants to the Tulsa Day Center, Lindsey House and Revitalize T-Town.
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