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<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nViola Ford Fletcher, center, and Lessie Benningfield Randle at the Oklahoma Capitol, in Oklahoma City, on Oct. 5.<\/em><\/p>\n The Oklahoma Supreme Court last Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit of the last two survivors of the 1921\u00a0Tulsa Race Massacre<\/a>, dampening the hope of advocates for racial justice that the government would make amends for one of the\u00a0worst single acts of\u00a0violence against Black people<\/a>\u00a0in U.S. history.<\/p>\n The nine-member court upheld the decision made by a\u00a0district\u00a0co<\/a>urt judge in Tulsa last year<\/a>, ruling that the plaintiff\u2019s grievances, although legitimate, did not fall within the scope of the state\u2019s public nuisance statute.<\/p>\n \u201cWe further hold that the plaintiff\u2019s allegations do not sufficiently support a claim for unjust enrichment,\u201d the court wrote in its decision.<\/p>\n Messages left Wednesday with a spokesperson for the City of Tulsa and the survivors\u2019 attorney, Damario Solomon-Simmons, were not immediately returned.<\/p>\n The suit was an attempt to force the city of Tulsa and others to make recompense for the destruction by a white mob of the once-thriving Black district known as Greenwood. In 1921 \u2014 on May 31 and June 1 \u2014 the white mob, including some people hastily deputized by authorities, looted and burned the district, which was referred to as Black Wall Street.<\/p>\n As many as 300 Black Tulsans were killed, and thousands of survivors were forced for a time into internment camps overseen by the National Guard. Burned bricks and a fragment of a church basement are about all that survive today of the more than 30-block historically Black district.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Viola Ford Fletcher, center, and Lessie Benningfield Randle at the Oklahoma Capitol, in Oklahoma City, on Oct. 5. The Oklahoma Supreme Court last Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit of the last two survivors of the 1921\u00a0Tulsa Race Massacre, dampening the hope of advocates for racial justice that the government would make amends for one of the\u00a0worst […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-government","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134427,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134423\/revisions\/134427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}