
The only three known living survivors of the deadliest racist attack in American history are awaiting a court’s crucial decision in a lengthy legal battle more than a century in the making.
Two years ago – on the eve of the 100th anniversary of a brutal two-day attack in a once-thriving Black neighbourhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma – a lawsuit against the city, military officials and other institutions demanded justice for the families and community living in the long, violent shadow of a massacre that left as many as 300 Black people dead and thousands homeless.