In June 2001, the Oklahoma State legislature passes the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Reconciliation Act.

Providing for the following:

More than 300 college scholarships for descendants of Greenwood residents;
Creation of a memorial to those who died in the riot. (A park with statues was dedicated as John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park on October 27, 2010, named in honor of the African American historian from Tulsa); and
Economic development in the Greenwood district of Tulsa.

Other elements of the recommended reparations program go unfunded.

In 1910, Walter L. Fleming publishes an article entitled “Ex-Slave Pension ‘Frauds” in which he credits Walter Vaughan with having an honest pension lobbying operation, but condemns other groups as engaged in fraud.