Other plaintiffs in the suit filed Tuesday in Tulsa County District Court are the Vernon AME Church and the Tulsa African Ancestral Society. They got away with it ― until today.” In addition to the city of Tulsa, the suit’s defendants include Tulsa County Sheriff Vic Regalado, the Tulsa County Commission, the Tulsa Regional Chamber and the Oklahoma Military Department. Mother Randle lived through the deadliest act of domestic terrorism on US soil, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. After the massacre, city officials and institutions “actively and unlawfully thwarted the community’s efforts to rebuild, neglecting the Greenwood and predominantly Black, North Tulsa communities,” according to the lawsuit. “We believe this lawsuit will be successful because there is no question there is a nuisance created by the defendants.”RACE MASSACRE LAWSUIT: Survivors and descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre are announcing a lawsuit against those who were involved in the tragedy, including the city of Tulsa.

Source: Huffington Post September 02, 2020 18:45 UTC