Descendants of people who suffered or died in the Tulsa race massacre have refused to let the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s denial of reparations deter them, and their hunger for a fight has only intensified.
Now, descendants and their allies want recognition in the form of a national monument so the country can never forget or attempt to suppress the brutality that was unleashed on the Greenwood community over a century ago, an event whose effects still linger in the livelihoods of residents and later generations.
“A national monument is the highest designation that a community in a geographical area can attain,” Tulsa race massacre descendant Dr. Tiffany Crutcher said. “It stems from this conspiracy of silence. It stems from us being robbed, of being able to learn what happened because our great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents had to keep this [pain] internalized.”
