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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

Oklahoma court tosses Tulsa race massacre lawsuit that would have forced city to offer reparations to victims

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Oklahoma’s highest court has rejected a decades-in-the-making lawsuit from a racist massacre’s two remaining survivors demanding justice in its ongoing aftermath.

More than 100 years after a white mob destroyed a bustling Black neighborhood, killed dozens of people and left hundreds of others homeless, the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s decision to dismiss the challenge.

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