Don't Forget: Black Wall Street lawsuit update

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Judge to rule on Tulsa Race Massacre lawsuit within 7 days

A Tulsa judge said she would decide whether to dismiss a lawsuit seeking justice for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre within seven days.

theblackwallsttimes.com

First filed in 2020 by Justice for Greenwood attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons, the lawsuit argues that the three last living survivors of the massacre (“Mother” Viola Ford Fletcher, 109, “Mother” Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108, and “Uncle Redd” Hughes Van Ellis, 102) are owed restitution by the city of Tulsa and other entities for failing to abate the public nuisance caused by the destruction of Historic Greenwood District.

The “Court will render a written decision within seven days,” Judge Wall said after the relatively brief hearing.

Link to '01 OK Commission Report

Tulsa Reparations Coalition

The Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, also called the 1921 Race Riot Commission, was authorized in 1997 by the Oklahoma State Legislature. Its purpose was to research the events of the Tulsa Massacre of 1921. Its report was submitted on February 28, 2001. The Tulsa Reparations Coalition,[1] sponsored by the Center for Racial Justice, Inc. was formed April 7, 2001, to obtain restitution for the damages suffered by Tulsa's Black community, as recommended by the Oklahoma Commission on February 21, 2001.