Sean Murphy.

Tulsa’s new mayor on Sunday proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre scholarships and housing help. The proposal is a city-backed bid to make amends for one of the worst racial attacks in U.S. history. The plan by Mayor Monroe Nichols would not provide direct cash payments to descendants or the last two centenarian survivors of the attack that killed as many as 300 Black people. Nichols is the first Black mayor of Oklahoma’s second-largest city. He made the announcement in the once-thriving Greenwood District that was destroyed by a white mob.