‘I got a backhoe and a lot of land’: SAPD detective suspended for pulling gun, threatening girlfriend and another manFILE - In this 1921 image provided by the Library of Congress, smoke billows over Tulsa, Okla.
If the plaintiffs were to die, attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons said he believes Oklahoma law would allow the case to continue with the plaintiffs' estates. If the Supreme Court denies the petition, the case is effectively over, although Solomon-Simmons said they are “continuing to explore new legal avenues that will hold defendants accountable.”
As many as 300 Black people were killed, more than 1,200 homes, businesses, school and churches were destroyed, and thousands of survivors were forced for a time into internment camps overseen by the National Guard. Burned bricks and a fragment of a church basement are about all that remain today of the more than 30-block historically Black district.
It also sought the construction of a hospital in north Tulsa, the creation of a land trust for all vacant and undeveloped land that would be distributed to descendants, and the establishment of a scholarship program for massacre descendants who lived in the Greenwood area.
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