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A lawsuit seeking reparations for the survivors and descendants of those impacted by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre can move forward after a judge delivered a ruling.
The lawsuit looks to create a special fund for survivors and descendants of the massacre that left at least 300 Black people dead.
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>> we know what happened 100 years ago. and it is time for the city of tulsa to do what is right and stand on the right side of history. >> the survivors, viola fletcher, lessie benningfield randle and hughes van ellis are all more than 100 years old. they were small children living in the greenwood section of town known as black wall street, a thriving back community in the middle of the jim yoa era. in 1921 a young black man was accused of assaulting a white teenage girl, a white mob including members of the tulsa sheriff's department torched roughly 35 blocks of homes and businesses. nearly...
It's not about what happened about 100 years ago but it's the continuing harm the continues to today, this public nuisance law is pretty powerful, because it states if there's a train act like the tulsa race massacre, and there's continuing harm, which there is, until that harm is abated or eradicated, and the public claim is still a valid claim, that's been a law in oklahoma since 1910. it's been affirmed on many occasions by the supreme court. mayor biden is wrong, it's unfortunate that he'd say something like that, it's unfortunate that he represents so many people intercity who have that t...