Tulsa Race Massacre's Last Survivors Will Not Receive Direct Payments in Mayor's Reparations Plan

Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, testifies before the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee hearing on "Continuing Injustice: The Centennial of the Tulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre" on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on May 19, 2021.

The last two known survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre will not receive direct payments from a $105 million reparations package recently announced by the Oklahoma city's mayor.

Tulsa's first black mayor, Monroe Nichols, announced the $105 million "Road to Repair" project on Sunday, aiming to tackle lasting socioeconomic disparities caused by rioting white mobs in 1921 in the Greenwood neighborhood as well as the wider North Tulsa community.