Bill to extend work of riot commission approved

(Oklahoma City-AP) -- The Oklahoma Senate today approved a measure that would extend the life of the Tulsa Race Riot Commission.<br><br>House Bill 24-68 by Tulsa state Representative Don Ross passed on

Monday, March 20th 2000, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

(Oklahoma City-AP) -- The Oklahoma Senate today approved a measure that would extend the life of the Tulsa Race Riot Commission.

House Bill 24-68 by Tulsa state Representative Don Ross passed on a 31-to-15 vote and returns to the state House for consideration
of Senate amendments.

Under one Senate amendment, the commission will have until February 28th, Two-thousand-and-one, to complete a final report on the 1921 race riot. It will have until November Two-thousand-and-three to make arrangements on a proposed memorial
commemorating the event.

Historians believe as many as 300 people, mostly blacks, died in the Greenwood District of Tulsa during the May 13th, 1921 violence.

Some senators were upset that a majority of commission members favor the payment of reparations to survivors and their
descendants.