(Reuters) – One of the last three known Black Tulsans who lived through a 1921 race massacre in the Oklahoma town has died at 102, his family said.

Hughes Van Ellis, who sued the city of Tulsa seeking reparations for one of the deadliest acts of racial violence in U.S. history, died on Monday night in Denver, Colorado his family said in a statement.

As many as 300 people, most of them Black, were killed when white residents burned Tulsa’s African American neighborhood of Greenwood.

Ellis, an infant at the ti