Oklahoma’s high court will consider a reparations case from 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre survivors

By AYANNA ALEXANDER and SEAN MURPHY
Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court will consider a reparations case from survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre after a lower court judge dismissed it last month. The high court’s decision gives hope to advocates for racial justice that government may make amends in one of the worst single acts of violence against Black people in U.S. history. In a court filing this week, Oklahoma says it won’t consider settlement discussions with survivors. The last three known living survivors of the attack are seeking reparations from the city, the state and others for the destruction by a white mob of the once-thriving Black district known as Greenwood.