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Tulsa mayor backs reparations plan for ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre victims

TULSA, OK – NOVEMBER 18: Vernon AME Church pastor Robert Turner speaks through a megaphone as he leads a protest for reparations outside City Hall on November 18, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Next year Tulsa will commemorate the race massacre’s centennial, which happened on May 30, 1921 for two days after a 19-year-old black shoe shiner named Dick Rowland assaulted a white woman sparking a race massacre. Soon after, a mob of White people took to the streets and killed numerous Black people and set fire to hundreds of Black-owed businesses and homes. Today, only a small amount of Black owned businesses remain along Greenwood Avenue along know as Black Wall Street in the Greenwood neighborhood. (Photo by Joshua Lott/The Washington Post)Joshua Lott