
Review of Reviews: “Empowering Black Wealth in the Shadow of the Tulsa Race Massacre,” Tulsa Law Review (2021)Review of Reviews: “Empowering Black Wealth in the Shadow of the Tulsa Race Massacre,” Tulsa Law Review (2021)
Lynne Marie Kohm, professor of family law, Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Va., Katrina Sumner, judicial law clerk in York, Penn. and Peyton Farley, third-year law student at Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Va.

In their impactful article, “Empowering Black Wealth in the Shadow of the Tulsa Race Massacre,” the authors examine the negative impact of societal wealth destruction on future Black generations. Though the article initially focuses on the Tulsa Race Massacre,1 it also emphasizes other governmental and societal events and laws that prevented “the transfer of Black Wealth to subsequent generations.”
The authors cite events after the Tulsa massacre in 1921, as well as laws such as “redlining,” vagrancy and usurpation of inventions as further examples of the destruction of Black wealth.
Referencing events 100 years ago in Tulsa in 1921 as one of the worst racial massacres in America’s history, the authors hypothesize that residents of Tulsa’s...
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