03 Mar 2021
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations: What Could Have Been
The story of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, in which an estimated 300 African Americans died, was long kept quiet, says Oklahoma State Rep. Regina Goodwin. Survivors were afraid to talk about it, she explains, and the perpetrators of the violence never faced criminal charges. "It's our job to tell the stories, to share the oral history," she says. Goodwin, a descendant of race massacre survivors, is the protagonist of a new case study, the Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations, written by Professor Mihir Desai following the 2020 murder of George Floyd.