it was easier to grow up in south tulsa than north tulsa. >> absolutely. outh tulsa. and -- i didn't have to worry about my boys being pulled over for no reason. i didn't worry about, you know, the safety of my sons. >> how bad was the gang problem in tulsa then? >> the gang problem was bad. people were afraid. there were reports regularly about crips and bloods warring. you know? the tulsa police department was trying to deal with a very high violent crime rate, a lot of guns on the street. >> september 10, 1994, was just that kind of day in north tulsa. another drive-by shooting. another senseless death. this time, it was 19-year-old karen summers, the mother of a baby boy, who was gunned down at 2:30 in the morning as she was hanging with friends at a party. >> frankly, this kind of case -- while it did involve a tragic loss of life of a young mother who was an innocent victim -- it was not highly unusual in tulsa. >> the murder had all the signs of a gang crime. and lots of crips were at the party. so a day later, tulsa homicide investigator mike huff p

alleges that the city of tulsa and six entities created a public nuisance under oklahoma law and tulsa's northe sti fferin the rificatns mor than a century later. in advance often anniversary of this atrocity in may, thehree living survors testified at a congressional hearing what they endured. >> we lost everything thatda our homes, our churches, our newspapers, our theaters, our lives, greenwood represented all the best of what was possible for black people in america. >> i was so scared i didn't think we could make it o alive. >>eive it with every d and the thought of what greenwood was and what it could have been. >> for more i'm joined by tiffany cross, host of msnbc's "the cross connection" and coed tore of the book "the matter of black lives" writing from the new yorker. thank you for being here. tiffany, you went to tulsa and did a fantaic special about those survivors and what they're dealing with this today. talk about this case. what are the hes for it actually to be successful? >> the he is justice, whatever that looks like. these people will not g justice the way they're respected