Tulsa Murders to Supreme KKKourt

[nattyreb]

i just posted a buncha stuff but got booted off, but there's lot of great info at www.tulsareparations.org, including accounts from the survivors of this mass lynching/burning.
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Below is a blurb from 3/9 @ http://www2.ktul.com/news/stories/0305/212413.html, sorry can't go find the other pieces right now, but check the reparations site & perhaps there's updated info at blackamericaweb.com as well. Of course, this blurb ain't telling no parts of what really happened, am posting this just for the court aspect:

Washington, DC - The Tulsa Race Riot lawsuit is heading to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Seven survivors of the 1921 riot were in Washington Wednesday to support the filing of an appeal to a decision by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

In September, the appeals court ruled that the statute of limitations had run out, upholding a similar ruling by a federal judge in Tulsa last March.

The lawsuit was filed in 2003 against the State of Oklahoma, the City of Tulsa and against the Tulsa Police Department. The plaintiffs, which include 150 survivors and 300 descendants, claim the three agencies either didn't stop the riot or participated in it and that they should receive reparations for lost loved ones and destroyed homes and businesses.

Attorneys claim the statute of limitations should have started in 2001, when survivors and victims first learned of the city and state's roles in the riot through a report released by the Tulsa Race Riot Commission.

The riot began after a black man was arrested for allegedly assaulting a white woman. A day later, whites and blacks began fighting outside the courthouse.

Whites, who were deputized by the police, began burning homes and businesses in the thriving Greenwood District. When it was over, at least 37 people were dead. Some people say as many as three hundred were killed in the riot.