- [Narrator] In early September, 2020

survivors of the 1921 massacre and their descendants

filed a new lawsuit in Oklahoma state court

against the City of Tulsa and other defendants.

"This lawsuit seeks to remedy the ongoing nuisance

caused by the 1921 massacre,

and to obtain benefits unjustly received by the Defendants."

- It wasn't just the white mob

that went through Black Wall Street.

There were city police officers who stood aside

as Black people were killed in cold blood,

so the government itself here is complicit

in what happened there,

so the government can pay reparations

to now descendants of the survivors

of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre,

because the government played a role

in stepping aside and allowing Black people to be killed.

- We're focused on making sure there's not only

just financial compensation and accountability,

but we would like to see

the first ever criminal investigation

into the crimes that were committed against Greenwood

and who committed those crimes.

We wanna know the identities of those individuals

who proudly stood in front of cameras,

taking pictures with their guns,

dead Black bodies behind them,

taking pictures burning down homes,

because they knew they had the blessing and the protection

of the police, of the sheriff, of the National Guard.

(birds singing)