Thursday, June 13, 2024

Oklahoma Supreme Court Dismisses Tulsa Massacre Lawsuit - The New York Times

White men deputized by the civil officials assaulted the neighborhood from the ground and the sky. Within two days, Greenwood was no more: 35 city blocks were reduced to heaping ashes, up to 300 of its citizens were dead and thousands were left homeless. The attack erased generational wealth that had been built at a time of great racial oppression. 

No person or entity was ever held responsible, no survivors were compensated for their losses, and the story was buried. It would be decades before the massacre was talked about openly. Yvonne Kauger, one of the nine Oklahoma Supreme Court justices, noted in an earlier hearing that she did not learn about the massacre in high school...

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