Lawyers for survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre pushed back Wednesday against city efforts to end a lawsuit that seeks compensation for the casualties and destruction from one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history.
The lawsuit, also filed on behalf of victims’ descendants, alleges the city of Tulsa violated Oklahoma’s public nuisance law with the massacre in the Greenwood business district, which led to an unknown number of deaths, with estimates ranging as high as 300.
“A public nuisance cuts across every aspect of life in Greenwood,” Damario Solomon-Simmons, who filed the 2020 lawsuit for the ...
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