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Taking their case to the Supreme Court for reparations
Tulsa riot victims petition Supreme Court
By Askia Muhammad
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - They survived one of the ugliest and bloodiest incidents of racial violence in America’s bloody history of racial subjugation—the anti-Black race riot that burned Tulsa, Okla.’s prosperous Greenwood neighborhood to the ground in 1921. Hundreds of Blacks were killed, and 22 square blocks including 1,256 homes were reduced to ashes.
Ranging in age from 89 to 102, the survivors of that awful day petitioned the Supreme Court in person March 9, demanding reparations, demanding justice, demanding that the facts and the law pertaining to their claims be argued in a court of law.
“Until there is justice in Tulsa, there can be justice in no other place in America,” Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree said recently. Prof. Ogletree is the lead counsel in the case.
“It is a strong statement and an appropriate statement,” Prof. Ogletree told The Final Call. “The 1921 race riots in Tulsa, where hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed; where hundreds of lives were lost, all African American; where 10,000 African Americans were left homeless; where millions of dollars of damages were done; and yet where no court has ever said, ‘I’m sorry.’ or, ‘We’ll pay you for your losses.’ We have to have justice in Tulsa.( Read more...Collapse )
