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September 3, 2020

Reparations Lawsuit Filed over 1921 Massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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In Oklahoma, a 105-year-old woman is leading a lawsuit demanding
reparations for one of the worst massacres of African Americans in U.S.
history. In June 1921, a white mob burned to the ground Tulsa's affluent
African American neighborhood of Greenwood, known as Black Wall Street,
killing at least 300 residents. Lessie Benningfield Randle is one of two
known living survivors of the massacre. The lawsuit says the aftermath
of the massacre is still felt by the community as racial inequality in
Tulsa can be traced back to the massacre, nearly a century later.


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