Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors to Be Heard in State Supreme Court (1)

The Oklahoma Supreme Court will review an appeal from survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre who are seeking reparations for losses stemming from the attack on what was known as Black Wall Street.

Justices will decide whether the case should be sent back to the district court after it was dismissed last month, according to a Tuesday statement from the plaintiffs’ lawyers.

The plaintiffs—Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108, Viola Fletcher, 109 and Hughes Van Ellis Sr., 102 as well as descendants of other survivors—are seeking restitution for the attack by a White mob on the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, which was home to ...