UPDATE: Lacking former Oklahoma State Consultant, Civil Rights chief Donald Ross discovered, taken to hospital

TO UPDATE: Legendary former civil rights leader and Oklahoma State representative Donald Ross, who went missing on Friday night, was found.

“Mr. Ross was found under a tree at 3000 N. Garrison, he is being transported to a local hospital for heat exhaustion,” Tulsa police said on social media.

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TULSA, Oklahoma (KFOR) – Legendary statesman Donald Ross, who served as the Oklahoma State representative and advocate for civil rights, is missing in the Tulsa area.

Donald Ross

Tulsa police issued a Silver Alert to 80-year-old Donald Ross, who went missing on Aug. 6, after he was discharged from a hospital and taken a taxi to 2700 North Garrison Avenue at around 10 p.m., police said with KJRH from Tulsa.

Ross has several health problems that put him at risk.

He is in “immediate danger of serious bodily harm or death,” says the Silver Alert.

Ross, pictured above, is described as six feet tall, weighed 265 pounds, bald, and with brown eyes. He was last seen in black sweatpants and the same black t-shirt he is wearing in the photo above.

Please call 911 immediately if you see Ross or know his whereabouts.

Ross, a native of North Tulsa, was elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives in 1982. He was in the House of Representatives from 1983 to 2003.

According to the Uncrowned Community Builders website, he served as Chair of the Funds and Budget Subcommittee on Health and Social Services for more than 10 years.

“He is credited with bringing more than $ 45 million to his predominantly African-American district,” the website said.

Ross, an Air Force veteran, dedicated his life to advancing Oklahoma.

He was instrumental in making Oklahoma the first southern state to remove the Confederate flag from the Capitol in 1989, according to the Tulsa People website.

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Ross also served as chairman of the Oklahoma Legislative Black Caucus from 1982 to 1984 and 1986 to 1988, and was secretary and chairman of the House of Representatives Democratic Caucus and vice chairman of the Tulsa County Democratic Party.

He helped set up the Greenwood Cultural Center as the primary fundraiser for the $ 3.5 million multi-purpose, history and children’s center.

The center was inaugurated in 1995 in the heart of the historic Greenwood District, which was destroyed during the 1921 Tulsa Race massacre.

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According to Uncrowned Community Builders, Ross was also the main organizer of the 75th anniversary commemorating the Race Massacre.

A white mob besieged Tulsa’s Greenwood District, an affluent black community known as Black Wall Street, from May 31 to June 1, 1921. The mob killed and wounded dozens of black parishioners, and looted and set fire to homes and businesses.

The 35-block district, which was booming with hundreds of thriving black businesses, turned to charred ruins. Hundreds of black residents were killed and 800 others injured amid the destruction.

Historians assume that up to 300 people were killed in the massacre.

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