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...Oklahoma, the discussion about apologies and reparations relates to a more recent tragedy: the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Oklahomans are asking how their riot happened and what they should do now. Debate over reparations for the Tulsa riot centers around the city government’s culpability in fueling the destruction...
...photograph of the riot, which shows the black section of the city on fire, was labeled “Running the Negro Out of Tulsa.” After the riot the black population declined by about one-third. Newspapers at the time are filled with reports of blacks walking along the railroad tracks headed out of town, never to return. The most poignant photograph of the riot shows the burned shell of the Dreamland Threatre, its marquee fallen. Such was the trajectory of Tulsa’s black community...
Recently, a commission funded by the Oklahoma legislature investigated the riot. Its purpose was to “excavate a history that had been consigned to oblivion for the past 75 years,” according to the distinguished historian John Hope Franklin...
...claims of Holocaust survivors from Swiss banks, which had retained some money deposited before the war by the survivors’ families, and the $2 million set aside by the Florida legislature for survivors of the 1923 attack on Rosewood, a black town burned during a week of rioting. There are other precedents. Families of victims of the East St. Louis riot of 1917 received more than $400,000 in 1921 to compensate them for losses...
...sure, has won some scattered victories. In 1994, Florida Governor Lawton Chiles signed a law providing $2.1 million to the survivors of a 1923 rampage by a white mob on the mostly black hamlet of Rosewood. The Oklahoma legislature is considering reparations for the survivors of a 1921 race riot in Tulsa in which as many as 300 people were murdered. California has enacted a law crafted by state senator Tom Hayden that will force insurance companies to disclose whether they issued policies that paid slave owners in the event of a slave's death...