Black History & Family Restoration

 

Black history is about families, and the generations of people who have lived that history.  Family restoration is about restoring those families torn by racism. 

Nowhere is that truer than in Tulsa, OK, where black families built a good life of peace, freedom, success, and wealth; but then in 1921 a terrible government led massacre killed 300 black people and destroyed or pilfered millions of dollars of wealth from black families.  These tragedies are not often recounted, maybe too painful for all involved, yet the Tulsa Race Massacre is a reality.  It is a tragic part of black – and white - history in America.

Two Regent Law students set out with me to find a path to healing and recovering wealth for the generations who have survived that terrible event (yet to this day have been without legal remedy).  We were invited to the Tulsa Law Review’s commemorating symposium on the Tulsa Race Massacre, where we presented our work.  The resulting publication is Empowering Black Wealth in America in the Shadow of the Tulsa Race Massacre, published in this spring’s issue of the Tulsa Law Review.

This article, which you can download free right now at Empowering Black Wealth in the Shadow of the Tulsa Race Massacre by Lynne Marie Kohm, Katrina Sumner, Peyton Farley :: SSRN, examines how the laws of wealth transfer can facilitate the intergenerational movement of Black family wealth and empower future generations with financial and estate planning supported by the rule of law.

Black history in the context of family restoration requires knowledge of this tragic massacre, and what can be done to restore the lost lives, wealth, and families who endured it.