May 31, 2021听marks the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre (formerly the Tulsa Race Riot), an 18-hour long period of death and destruction as white Tulsans, deputized by the government, raided the Greenwood district of Tulsa, a then-thriving Black community known as Black Wall Street. Though the massacre resulted in hundreds of deaths and millions of dollars in damage, it was largely covered up, and not widely discussed until a report was released in 2001 by the .
CU Boulder Law Professor represented more than 100 massacre survivors in a 2003 federal lawsuit,听Alexander v. State of Oklahoma. The case was dismissed because of听a two-year statute of limitations, but Malveaux and her team advocated to suspend the statute for several more years in international courts and before Congress. While the case was unsuccessful, her experience has motivated her work in academia teaching Civil Rights Law and Civil Procedure. As a new lawsuit against the City of Oklahoma was recently filed by the remaining three survivors, Malveaux can share her experience working with this resilient group of people and the significance of this fight for justice.听