OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court has rejected a request to reconsider its ruling to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the last two known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
Without comment, seven members of the court on Tuesday turned away the request by 110-year-old Viola Fletcher and 109-year-old Lessie Benningfield Randle to rehear its June ruling that upheld a decision by a district court judge in Tulsato dismiss the case.
Justice James Edmondson would have reheard the case and Justice Richard Darby did not vote.
Fletcher and Randle survived the massacre that is considered one of the worst single acts of violenceagainst Black people in U.S. history.
You mean the survivors… yeah 100 is incredible!
Yeah I mean the women, they’re incredibly old. I don’t mean it’s incredibly old news, if I meant that I would have said “that was an incredibly long time ago”. I’m not American, I don’t actually know anything about the incident in question.
It was a long time ago. 1921. These people have lived long lives with no justice.