More than 100 years after Tulsa’s Greenwood District was destroyed in a race massacre

  • More than 100 years after Tulsa’s Greenwood District was destroyed in a race massacre, Democratic Oklahoma state Rep. Monroe Nichols becomes Tulsa’s first Black mayor. Campaigning on ending homelessness in Tulsa by 2030, increasing development and stopping adversarial lawsuits with tribal governments, Nichols captured 74,447 votes (55.13%) to defeat Democratic County Commissioner Karen Keith, who garnered 60,593 (44.87%) of the votes cast, to succeed G. T. Bynum. Nichols, a former University of Tulsa footba
    More than 100 years after Tulsa’s Greenwood District was destroyed in a race massacre, Democratic Oklahoma state Rep. Monroe Nichols becomes Tulsa’s first Black mayor. Campaigning on ending homelessness in Tulsa by 2030, increasing development and stopping adversarial lawsuits with tribal governments, Nichols captured 74,447 votes (55.13%) to defeat Democratic County Commissioner Karen Keith, who garnered 60,593 (44.87%) of the votes cast, to succeed G. T. Bynum. Nichols, a former University of Tulsa footba

    More than 100 years after Tulsa’s Greenwood District was destroyed in a race massacre, Democratic Oklahoma state Rep. Monroe Nichols becomes Tulsa’s first Black mayor. 

    Campaigning on ending homelessness in Tulsa by 2030, increasing development and stopping adversarial lawsuits with tribal governments, Nichols captured 74,447 votes (55.13%) to defeat Democratic County Commissioner Karen Keith, who garnered 60,593 (44.87%) of the votes cast, to succeed G. T. Bynum. 

    Nichols, a former University of Tulsa football player from Waco, Texas, was elected to represent House District 72 in 2016. His term in the House ends later this month, and he will be sworn in to as Tulsa’s 41st mayor on Dec. 2.