A reparations case brought by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre’s centenarian survivors was dismissed with prejudice – By Hannah Getahun (Insider) / July 9, 2023
- A judge dismissed a lawsuit brought forward by survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
- Plaintiffs sought damages and a plan for the city to rebuild what was lost during the massacre.
- The city argued it didn’t need to pay because the plaintiffs didn’t prove they had a claim to compensation.
An Oklahoma judge dismissed a lawsuit brought forward by survivors of what historians call the “single worst incident of racial violence in American History” after lawyers for the City of Tulsa argued that the city’s connection to the event should not allow plaintiffs to “seek compensation.”
On Friday, court records show Judge Caroline Wall ordered that the suit — filed in September 2020 by three survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — should be dismissed with prejudice.
This means that Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108, Viola Fletcher, 109, and Hughes Van Ellis, 102, can not refile the suit in the Oklahoma district court it was originally filed in. However, they can still appeal the decision to a higher court.
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