Survivors of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre file lawsuit seeking 'relief,' victims fund
Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre filed a sweeping lawsuit Tuesday against the city, county and other authorities they blame for leading one of America's "worst acts of domestic terrorism."
Plaintiffs, who include 105-year-old Lessie E. Benningfield Randle, are seeking damages they claim are long overdue following the infamous attack by white mobs on a north Tulsa neighborhood that had been home to middle-class Black residents and known as Black Wall Street.
"Beginning on May 31, 1921 and lasting through June 1, 1921, one of the worst acts of domestic terrorism in United States history since slavery completely decimated Tulsa's thriving, all-Black community of Greenwood," according to the lawsuit filed by plaintiffs' lawyer Damario Solomon-Simmons.
"This brutal, inhumane attack ... robbed thousands of African Americans of their right of self-determination on which they had built this self-sustaining community."
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