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Last survivor of Tulsa Race Massacre dies at 102 as reparations fight continues

  • Hughes Van Ellis was one of the last three living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, which killed up to 300 Black people.
  • The massacre destroyed the Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa known as "Black Wall Street."
  • Van Ellis and two other survivors sued for reparations but a lower court dismissed the case.
  • The survivors appealed to the Oklahoma Supreme Court, which is considering the case.
  • Van Ellis' death at 102 leaves only two remaining massacre survivors, his sister and another woman, both over 100 years old.
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