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 1974, a $10 million out-of-court settlement is reached in the case of the US Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee (see timeline entry for 1973). As part of the settlement, the US Government promises to give lifetime medical benefits and burial services to all living participants.