Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Ford Fletcher still fight for reparations.
Owner of Ben's Chili Bowl Virginia Ali and Queen Mother and Founder of the VFF Foundation, Viola Ford Fletcher attend the Oldest Living Tulsa Oklahoma Massacre Survivors Celebrated And Book Cover Revealing at The City Club of Washington on Feb.28, 2023 in Washington, DC.
Tulsa massacre survivor Lessie Benningfield Randle, 106, waits to be escorted in the Greenwood district of Tulsa on May 28, 2021 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Randle and Fletcher have also filed a petition for a rehearing to the Oklahoma Supreme Court, asking the court to consider the case again following its June 12 decision to dismiss the survivors' lawsuit against defendants, which include the city of Tulsa.
The lawsuit included a claim of public nuisance, alleging that as a result of the massacre, the survivors "continue to face racially disparate treatment and city-created barriers to basic human needs, including jobs, financial security, education, housing, justice and health, that annoy, injure, or endanger their comfort, repose, health, or safety and render them insecure in life, or in the use of their property.
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