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#Oklahoma #SupremeCourt dismisses #lawsuit of last #TulsaRaceMassacre #survivors seeking #reparations

https://apnews.com/article/1921-race-massacre-tulsa-black-survivors-b7a4c83514ce79640a8490d49efb9006

The suit was an attempt to force the city of #Tulsa and others to make recompense for the destruction of the once-thriving Black district by a white #mob. In 1921 — on May 31 and June 1 — the white mob, including some #people hastily deputized by authorities, looted and burned the district, which was referred to as Black #WallStreet.

As many as 300 Black #Tulsans were killed, and thousands of survivors were forced for a time into internment camps overseen by the #NationalGuard. Burned bricks and a fragment of a #church basement are about all that survive today of the more than 30-block #historically Black #district.

The two survivors of the attack, Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, who are both now over 100 years old, sued in 2020 with the hope of seeing what their attorney called “justice in their #lifetime.”