Lawsuit seeks reparations for 1921 massacre of Tulsa's Black district
A lawsuit has been filed in the state of Oklahoma on behalf of the descendants of the carnage of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, among the largest racially motivated mass killings in US history. And 105-year-old survivor Lessie Benningfield Randle is the lead plaintiff. Tulsa lawyer Damario Solomon-Simmons, who filed the lawsuit along with other members of the Justice for Greenwood Advocates, a team of civil and human rights lawyers, told reporters at a news conference last week that no one "to this day, has been held accountable … someone said recently that the folks that committed the massacre almost got away with it. Well, they did get away with it. Until today." The complaint was filed under the state's public nuisance law, which the state attorney general used last year to force opioid drug maker Johnson & Johnson to pay the state $465m in damages. The city's thriving Black district, Greenwood, was systematically looted, lynched, bombed, burned to the ground by an angry, jealous white mob that continues to impact Black residents of the city to this day.
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