The destruction of property is only one piece of the financial devastation that the massacre wrought. Much bigger is a sobering kind of inheritance: the incalculable and enduring loss of what could have been, and the generational wealth that might have shaped and secured the fortunes of Black children and grandchildren.
Not long after the attack, shell-shocked survivors — who were blamed for the violence — returned home to ruin. Amid the charred remnants, they were forced to make an excruciating decision that would change family histories forever: leave and start over again somewhere else, or rebuild.
They also faced another kind of white resistance: a fire ordinance intended to prevent Black property owners from rebuilding on their own and insurance companies that refused to pay damage claims.
There is a pending lawsuit and ongoing discussions about how and whether to compensate the families of the Tulsa Massacre victims. No compensation has ever been paid under court order or by legislation.
To this day, not one person has been prosecuted or punished for the devastation and ruin of the original Greenwood.
Small rant inbound. I'm not sure how I feel about this piece. I work in heritage preservation, particularly on physical 3d rendering, and this feels really gimmicky. I think the images and text...
Small rant inbound. I'm not sure how I feel about this piece. I work in heritage preservation, particularly on physical 3d rendering, and this feels really gimmicky. I think the images and text were impactful, but the really basic little 3D tour felt unnecessary. I can think of about 15 ways they could have made this more engaging with 2D assets, even a basic ESRI story map would have worked better. Also their claims in the methodology section of employing machine learning to render the incredibly basic models they did has is ridiculous. Definition over engineering. The only way that model would be able to determine building heights would be from some sort of textual data, which is easily accessible to humans as well. It feels like a group with an engineering idea searching for a topic that would make their "experiment" a splash. People don't know enough about the Tulsa Race Riots and the way this data is presented is just obscuring it more and removes the human element.
Small rant inbound. I'm not sure how I feel about this piece. I work in heritage preservation, particularly on physical 3d rendering, and this feels really gimmicky. I think the images and text were impactful, but the really basic little 3D tour felt unnecessary. I can think of about 15 ways they could have made this more engaging with 2D assets, even a basic ESRI story map would have worked better. Also their claims in the methodology section of employing machine learning to render the incredibly basic models they did has is ridiculous. Definition over engineering. The only way that model would be able to determine building heights would be from some sort of textual data, which is easily accessible to humans as well. It feels like a group with an engineering idea searching for a topic that would make their "experiment" a splash. People don't know enough about the Tulsa Race Riots and the way this data is presented is just obscuring it more and removes the human element.