Black Wall Street Massacre Survivors to Appeal Oklahoma Reparations Dismissal
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 Benningfield Randle, 108, Viola Fletcher, 109 and Hughes Van Ellis Sr., 102 — said they would be appealing to the Oklahoma Supreme Court.