Okla. justices deny request to reconsider Tulsa Massacre lawsuit [Video]

The Oklahoma Supreme Court has rejected a request to reconsider its ruling to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the last two known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.Without comment, seven members of the court on Tuesday turned away the request by 110-year-old Viola Fletcher and 109-year-old Lessie Benningfield Randle to rehear its June ruling that upheld a decision by a district court judge in Tulsa to dismiss the case.Justice James Edmondson would have reheard the case and Justice Richard Darby did not vote.Fletcher and Randle survived the massacre that is considered one of the worst single acts of violence against Black people in U.S. history.As many as 300 Black people were killed; more than 1,200 homes, businesses, schools and churches were destroyed; and thousands were forced into internment camps overseen by the National Guard when a white mob, including some deputized by authorities, looted and burned the Greenwood …