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Posted: 2021-05-19T20:30:59Z | Updated: 2021-05-20T17:07:20Z

Centenarians who survived the 1921 destruction of a thriving Black district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, told members of Congress at a hearing on Wednesday that they are still waiting for justice.

By the grace of God, I am still here. I have survived. I have survived to tell this story, Lessie Benningfield Randle, 106, said in front of the House Judiciarys Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee. Hopefully now you all will listen to us while we are still here.

The hearing was timed to align with the centennial of whats known as the Tulsa race massacre, in which a white mob leveled a Black community called Greenwood in May 1921, razing businesses, killing an estimated 300 Black people and leaving another 10,000 homeless.

Randle was one of three survivors to speak about the atrocities and is part of a reparations lawsuit filed last year against the city of Tulsa, the county of Tulsa, the state of Oklahoma, and the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce for the two-day attack.