Tulsa’s new mayor, Monroe Nichols, the city’s first Black mayor, has proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to benefit descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

The plan, aimed at scholarships and housing assistance, does not include direct cash payments to descendants or the last two centenarian survivors.

Nichols refers to the initiative as a “road to repair” rather than reparations and emphasized restoring Tulsa’s economic vitality, especially in North Tulsa.

The plan follows an earlier declaration of June 1 as Tulsa Race Massacre Observance Day.

However, some descendants, like Jacqueline Weary, expressed frustration over the lack of direct compensation.

Other U.S. cities, like Evanston, Illinois, have launched similar reparations efforts, the Associated Press has reported.

Two survivors, Leslie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, who are both 110 years old, were present at the announcement but have not received compensation from the city or state.

Written by B.C. Begley