TULSA, Okla. (KFOR) – Legendary statesman Donald Ross, who served as an Oklahoma State Consultant and championed Civil Rights, is lacking within the Tulsa space.
The Tulsa Police Division issued a Silver Alert for 80-year-old Donald Ross, who went lacking Friday, Aug. 6, after he was discharged from a hospital and took a taxi to the 2700 North Garrison Avenue at round 10 p.m., police instructed Tulsa-based KJRH.
Ross has a number of well being situations that put him in danger.
He’s in “imminent hazard of significant bodily harm or loss of life,” the Silver Alert states.
Ross, who’s pictured above, is described as 6 toes tall, 265 kilos, bald and as having brown eyes. He was final seen sporting black jogger-style sweat pants and the identical black T-shirt he’s seen sporting within the above photograph.
Please instantly name 911 when you see Ross or know of his whereabouts.
Ross, a North Tulsa native, was elected to the Oklahoma Home of Representatives in 1982. He served within the Home from 1983 to 2003.
He was the Chairman of the Appropriations and Finances Sub-Committee on Well being and Social Companies for greater than 10 years, in response to the Uncrowned Community Builders website.
“He’s credited for bringing greater than $45 million to his predominately African-American district,” the web site states.
Ross, an Air Power veteran, devoted his life to progress in Oklahoma.
He was instrumental in Oklahoma changing into the primary Southern state to take away the Accomplice flag from the Capitol grounds in 1989, in response to the Tulsa People website.
Ross additionally served as Chairman of the Oklahoma Legislative Black Caucus from 1982 to 1984 and 1986 to 1988, and was secretary and chairman of the Home of Representatives Democratic Caucus and vice-chairman of the Tulsa County Democratic Occasion.
He helped develop the Greenwood Cultural Heart because the principal fundraiser for the $3.5 million multi-purpose, historical past and kids’s middle.
The Heart was devoted in 1995 within the coronary heart of the historic Greenwood District, which was destroyed in the course of the 1921 Tulsa Race Bloodbath.
Ross additionally labored because the principal organizer of the seventy fifth anniversary commemorating the Race Bloodbath, in response to Uncrowned Neighborhood Builders.
A white mob laid siege to Tulsa’s Greenwood District, a affluent Black group known as Black Wall Avenue, from Could 31 to June 1, 1921. The mob killed and wounded scores of Black group members and looted and set fireplace to houses and companies.
The 35-block district that had boomed with a whole bunch of thriving black companies was decreased to charred ruins. Amid the destruction, a whole bunch of Black residents have been killed and 800 others injured.
Historians imagine as many as 300 individuals have been killed within the bloodbath.
