TULSA, Okla. — ‘Project Greenwood’ is the latest push by advocates to bring justice and healing to the descendants and the survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
Behind the program, Damario Solomon-Simons. He’s spent the last 25 years fighting for the survivors. This effort is no different.
“It is a comprehensive plan to not only restore Greenwood but to move this city forward and create the one Tulsa that we’ve been talking about for decades,” he said.
His goals through Project Greenwood are expansive.
Goals of ‘Project Greenwood’
- Immediately compensate survivors
- Create a victim compensation fund
- Start a descendant business support program
- Implement a descendant scholarship program
- A surviving entity grant program
- Descendant Employment Preference program
- Descendant contracting preference program
- Immunity from all City of Tulsa taxes, fees, assessments, and/or utility expenses for a set period of time
- Historic Greenwood land record audit
- Return any land owned by the city that belonged to massacre victims
- Build a Level 1 Trauma Center Hospital in …