Japanese Americans Support Reparations for the Survivors and Descendants of the Tulsa Massacre

Real Justice is Required and Reparations are Due!

“When I am asked whether I favor reparations for riot victims, I say yes, I certainly do! If Japanese Americans got reparations for their suffering during World War II, we black Tulsa Race Riot survivors deserve it for our suffering in 1921.” John Melvin Alexander

Given the outcome of the 2024 Presidential Election, we implore President Biden and his Administration to use his executive powers to deliver reparations before the end of his presidential term to Ms. Viola Ford Fletcher and Ms. Lessie Benningfield Randle, the two known living survivors of the Tulsa Massacre.

While the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is currently conducting a review of the Tulsa Massacre, we stand behind the calls from the survivors, descendants, and Tulsa’s Black community who urge the DOJ to go beyond a review, provide direct reparations, and hold the individuals and institutions accountable for orchestrating and perpetrating the massacre and subsequent anti-Black laws and conditions, including the deputized white citizens from Tulsa and outside territories, the City of Tulsa, Tulsa County, Tulsa’s Sheriff Department and the State of Oklahoma.

We ask the DOJ to exhaust all its resources for Tulsa’s Black community as it continues to reel from the worst case of domestic terrorism in this country’s existence. We ask that the DOJ not only recommend but work with the Biden Administration to provide reparations to the survivors, 110-years-old Mothers Fletcher and Randle, and to the descendants of the Tulsa Massacre as a part of the conclusion of DOJ’s review.

Japanese Americans remember how 125,000 of our people were forcibly removed from their homes on the West Coast and unjustly incarcerated by the United States government during World War II. We know what the disappearance of our family members feels like, and what the destruction of our communities looks like. We also know that reparations are necessary and reparations are possible, because we won a measure of justice in 1988 when the US government officially apologized and paid reparations to our community. America, the time is now!

Justice Now! Reparations Now!

Take Action!

  1. Sign the petition to pressure the department of justice to launch a full investigation!

  2. Call on President Biden to issue an executive order providing reparations to the survivors and descendants of the Tulsa Massacre. Call the White House: (202) 456-1111

Educational resources

Find our (Nikkei Progressives & NCRR Joint Reparations Committee) Reparations Educational Resources here!