The New Crisis, July 1st, 2001
One hundred known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot will go without restitution after the Oklahoma legislature recently revised a bill asking for reparalions. The bill, sponsored by State Senator Maxine Homer (D), was instead amended to establish other ways of acknowledging the violent bloodshed more than 80 years ago.
The Tulsa Race Riot Commission, appointed by Gov. Frank Keating (R), was created to examine the riot. The commission released a report earlier this year detailing a full account of the deadly unrest on May 31 and June 1, 1921, in the Greenwood district of Tulsa. The panel e...
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