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| | CNN - Tulsa panel seeks truth from 1921 race riot - August 3, 1999 |
 | | TULSA, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Beulah Smith and Kenny Booker, two elderly Oklahomans, lived through one of the worst race riots in U.S. history, a rarely mentioned 1921 Tulsa blood bath that officially took dozens of African-American lives, but more likely claimed hundreds. |
 | | The Tulsa Race Riot Commission, formed two years ago to determine exactly what happened, will consider next week the controversial issue of what, if any, reparations should be paid to the known survivors of the riot, a group of less than 100 that includes Smith, now 92, and Booker, 86. |
 | | The Tulsa commission is scheduled to release its final report on the riot in January. |
| www.cnn.com /US/9908/03/tulsa.riots.probe (878 words) |
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