On May 31, 1921, a mob of white Tulsans destroyed the area around Greenwood Avenue, also known as Black Wall Street. The violence culminated on June 1, and ultimately, up to 300 residents died, most of them Black.
The initiative petition would allow Oklahoma voters to decide whether June 1 should be recognized annually as Greenwood Remembrance and Reconciliation Day.
Francetta L. Mays is an associate pastor at the Historic Vernon AME Church in Tulsa’s Greenwood District. She filed the initiative petition paperwork earlier this month…