Mission
The mission of 1256 Movement is bold and restorative: to help rebuild and/or restore 1,256 homes for Black families in Tulsa — a direct response to the 1,256 Black-owned homes that were burned down in a single day during the Tulsa Race Massacre on June 1, 1921.
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Step Back in Time for a Night to Remember!
Put on your best Harlem Renaissance attire and join us for an unforgettable evening of dining, dancing, music, casino games, and crafted cocktails — all for a powerful cause. Every spin, sip, and step on the dance floor supports 1256 Movement’s mission to preserve and build 1256 homes for Tulsa families, in honor of the 1256 homes destroyed in 1921. Come dressed to impress — feathers, fedoras, and fringe encouraged! Let’s celebrate legacy, resilience, and restoration in Harlem Renaissance style.
Read the Most Recent 1256 Brochure
Download a 12-page brochure from 1256 Movement and share with your networks how they can be part of a historic movement of healing in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
As Seen on OWN
“The Tulsa Massacre is the deadliest outbreak of white terrorist violence against a black community in American history.”
Dr. Karlos K. Hill, Foreword to 1921: Reporting a Massacre by Randy Krehbiel
You want to build a home.
1256 Movement helps you with a collective of realtors, builders, bankers, and friends to come along with you.
What are you going to do about history?
Tulsa and State of Oklahoma officials aided White mobs in a pogrom of Greenwood. The Red Cross in 1921 estimated 300 Black people were killed. More than one hundred businesses, schools, churches, a hospital, and 1,256 homes were looted and burned to ash and rubble. For 100 years no reparations have ever been paid by city, county, or state to victims, survivors, and descendants of Greenwood.
Many people say, “I wasn’t there,” and “that was long ago,” but the question we ask at 1256 Movement is, “How am I part of this history?” and “What am I going to do about it?” The vision of 1256 Movement is to see Black lives flourishing and White lives grateful for the benefits that have been given–yes, given–for hundreds of years. Because of the benefits afforded to White people and not Black people, disparities still exist. The goal of 1256 Movement is to close these disparities in housing by serving 1,256 Black families in the coming years with some form of reparative work on their homes.
Since 2021, generous folks like you nationwide have donated more than $200,000 to complete critical home improvements for 30 families, strengthening homeownership and seeding generational wealth. These are not just home repairs; they’re stories of dignity and legacy. We are not by any means close to finishing this work but have much work to do. Would you join us in this work? Click the red Donate button on this home page.
You have a Black owned contracting business.
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You want to help heal and build.
Join the 1256 Movement to pay reparations to 1,256 Black families building new or rehab homes.