Tulsa massacre survivors to appeal dismissal of reparations

Benningfield Randle, 108, Viola Fletcher, 109 and Hughes Van Ellis Sr., 102 — said they would be appealing to the Oklahoma Supreme Court.

Lawyers for the last three living survivors of the Tulsa race massacre of 1921 said they will appeal a decision to dismiss a lawsuit seeking reparations for the attack on what was known as Black Wall Street.

At a Monday press conference, an attorney for the plaintiffs — Lessie

“We will not go quietly,” the survivors said in a statement read by Damario Solomon-Simmons. “We will continue to fight until our last breaths. Like so many Black Americans, we carry the weight of intergenerational racial trauma day in and day out.”

Judge Caroline Wall, a Tulsa