At a Race Massacre Centennial worship service this morning, Vanessa Hall-Harper described what the resolution would have the city council do.
“Acknowledging, apologizing, and most importantly committing…committing…to making tangible amends for the racially motivated acts of violence perpetrated against Black Tulsans in Greenwood,” said Hall-Harper.
Thus far the city hasn’t taken any responsibility for the massacre that historians say agents of the government participated in.
According to a 2001 report from a commission authorized by the Oklahoma Legislature, public officials provided weapons to the white mob that burned 35 blocks of Greenwood.
The resolution specifically mentions the commission report, saying it will be re-evaluated in a community-led process “to make significant progress toward restoring economic mobility, prosperity, and generational wealth for the 1921 Race Massacre survivors, their descendants, and residents of North Tulsa.”
The resolution will be voted on June 2nd.