It keeps me awake some nights. Your house problems keep me awake. As founder of an organization with a purpose to improve home ownership for Black Tulsans, one of my biggest frustrations is not being able to say yes to every request for home restoration today. We have your applications and we haven’t forgotten you,Continue reading “A Message to 1256 Applicants in 2025”
Category Archives: About 1256
2024 Annual Report
What is 1256 Movement about to do in 2025? Applicants We are asking applicants who submitted applications between 2020-2023 and were not accepted, to re-apply here. In 2025, our plan is to organize applications quarterly and make awards four times in the year. So if you do not get accepted in the first quarter ofContinue reading “2024 Annual Report”
2023 Annual Report
Public Invited to Read Annual Report to 1256 Movement Applicants and Donors Applicants Thank you to more than two hundred (200) of you who have applied for reparation home improvement grants from 1256 Movement. The good news is that we have conveyed to sixteen (16) families funds to improve their homes. In three years, 1256Continue reading “2023 Annual Report”
WATCH “REBUILDING BLACK WALL STREET” ON OWN STARTING FRIDAY, SEP 29, 8 PM CST
The non-profit 1256 Movement that exists to convey reparations to Black families through home building and improvement is featured on Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).
How can a re-telling of the 1921 Race Massacre change how we act today?
White people like me have not told the story I’m about to tell. Instead, white people have largely buried Tulsa’s racial history, specifically of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Enraged by rumors that a Black man raped a White woman in an elevator in downtown Tulsa, a White mob gathered at the Tulsa County Courthouse.Continue reading “How can a re-telling of the 1921 Race Massacre change how we act today?”
How can a black family be offered a reparation payment if buying an existing house or spec house from a builder?
The cost of the land or a cash payment of $10,000 can be credited back to the buyer at closing.
What are the funding sources for 1256 Movement to help a black individual or family acquire land and build a home?
Land Sourcing and Funding1256 is actively working with the city and private sources to acquire land by proxy for 1,256 black individuals or families seeking to build homes in Tulsa area. Funding for this land acquired from Tulsa Development Authority (TDA) or other public or private sources, such as bank loans and private donations. WeContinue reading “What are the funding sources for 1256 Movement to help a black individual or family acquire land and build a home?”
What are 1256 Movement’s Core Values?
Healing the Past We believe healing and forgiveness requires reparations. Reparation is a necessary part of healing. There was once a man named Zacchaeus who lived in Jericho in Israel. He was unpopular because he was a tax collector. And he was short, so one day when Jesus of Nazareth came to his town, heContinue reading “What are 1256 Movement’s Core Values?”
What is the mission and vision of 1256?
1256 Movement Mission The 1256 Mission is to impact 1,256 low to medium income families in North Tulsa in ten years by building affordable, quality homes black people can own, using equity to fund education, businesses, and build hope. 1256 Movement Vision We believe businesses, builders in particular, can do justice and make lasting changeContinue reading “What is the mission and vision of 1256?”
What is the 1256 Movement?
1256 Movement is a collection of diverse people who believe that the homes burned down by white mobs should be re-built by citizens of Tulsa. Ownership of land and these new homes should be returned to black individuals and families. 1256 Movement Inc. is a 501c3 with the purpose of building 1,256 homes for lowContinue reading “What is the 1256 Movement?”
What is the 1256 Proof of Concept Phase?
In the Proof of Concept Phase, 1256 Movement and Taylor Homes are purchasing in fill lots, preferring several lots in a row, in order to build the first homes. How will these first homes be financed? 1256 Movement was started in 2020 after the death of Terrel Taylor, a builder in Bartlesville, OK. Nearly 50Continue reading “What is the 1256 Proof of Concept Phase?”