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...riot—often considered the most devastating race riot in the country’s history—left hundreds of African-Americans dead and destroyed homes and churches in Tulsa’s Greenwood district. In 1921, a grand jury exonerated a group of whites who were accused of involvement in the riots...
...Supreme Court last week declined to hear a case presented by Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree that sought reparations for the victims of a cataclysmal 1921 race riot in Tulsa, Okla...
...case—Alexander v. State of Oklahoma—came before the court after the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last fall that it was too late for riot survivors and their descendants to sue the state. The Supreme Court did not offer any comment on its decision not to hear the case...
Ogletree, who represented nearly 150 elderly survivors of the riot, wrote in an e-mail that the refusal was “hardly surprising.” But he emphasized that he still takes issue with the decisions reached by lower courts that argued that the statute of limitations had already passed in the case...
Last month, the Congressional Black Caucus heard testimony from attorneys and victims of the race riot for the first time. Ogletree said his team plans to continue to participate in congressional hearings and expects “some legislative action to assist these survivors while they are still alive...