"Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole."
Tulsa Race Riot Court Cases (downloadable PDFs)"Legal suits were filed on behalf of the victims of the Tulsa Race Riot who had incurred a loss of personal property. These cases were brought by attorneys B.C. Franklin, I.H. Spears, P.A. Chappelle, Elisha Scott, and George W. Carry. The cases were dismissed in 1937 with the assent of Franklin and Scott."
Full Red Cross Disaster Relief Report (Greenwood Cultural Center)The Red Cross was the only organization to provide sustained aid to the victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Known for its assistance after natural disasters, after learning of the events of the Massacre and sending a representative (Maurice Willows) to investigate, it classified the Greenwood community as a natural disaster area, providing aid to the community until December 1921. This report is comprehensive in its detail of the loss experienced by the 1921 Greenwood community.
Chamber of Commerce Minutes (Greenwood Cultural Center)From a meeting one day after the Massacre, these Chamber of Commerce minutes provide a lens into the cause of the massacre and how to move forward from the perspective of the white business citizens at the time.