On Wednesday, the Oklahoma State Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit brought forward by the last remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, who were seeking financial reparations from the city for what is largely regarded as one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history.
The looters and arsonists killed up to 300 Black people in Greenwood, some of whom were buried in mass graves, and left over 9,000 Black Tulsans homeless.
The massacre was largely driven by white resentment over Greenwood's racial prosperity, and started when an armed white mob tried to lynch a Black man who was falsely accused of raping a white woman in an elevator.
Only two known survivors are alive to this day - Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, both over 100 years old, were children at the time of the attack.
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