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Anadolu Agency/ Getty Images By Melissa Noel ·Updated August 17, 2023
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The ruling came only weeks after a Tulsa County court dismissed a lawsuit seeking restitution for the massacre’s last three known survivors, Viola Fletcher, Lessie Benningfield Randle, and Hughes Van Ellis. However, the state’s top court agreed to hear
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