The massacre is reported to have started with an accusation that Dick Rowland, a 19-year-old shoe-shiner, assaulted a white female teenager in an elevator. Decades later, the 2001 Tulsa Race Riot Commission concluded, Sarah Page, 17, was interviewed by police but made no allegations of assault.

Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols unveiled a reparations plan for the descendants of the Tulsa race massacre -- the 1921 deadly attack by a white mob on a Black neighborhood.