Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest known survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died at 111. As a child she watched Black Wall Street burn, survived the terror that destroyed her community, and spent the next century demanding that the nation confront the truth. Her testimony before Congress helped push the Justice Department to publicly acknowledge the massacre as a coordinated attack that killed hundreds of Black residents. Fletcher’s legacy lives on in her courage, her memoir, and her unwavering call for justice.
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On Juneteenth let us remember, racial terror did not end with slavery
Dr. Tiffany Crutcher, a descendant of a survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, is leading the movement for a national monument to recognize and restitution for the destruction of Greenwood District.
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New book chronicles one family’s journey during Tulsa Race Massacre
‘Diving into what happened in Tulsa, I learned so much about the mechanics of how nationwide Black communities were decimated by federal and state policy.’
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100 years later Tulsa still seeking justice
White settlers of Tulsa carried out a pogrom targeted Greenwood, as Black Tulsa was known, a community so prosperous and self-contained that Booker T. Washington dubbed it ‘Black Wall Street.’
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100 years after the Tulsa Race Massacre, lessons from my grandfather
‘That it took so long for the city to acknowledge what took place shows how selective society can be when it comes to which historical events it chooses to remember.’
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New book teaches kids about Black Wall Street
Few people know that the first bombs to ever fall on American soil destroyed this once-flourishing district in Tulsa, known as Black Wall Street, demolishing a once-vibrant Black neighborhood.
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WATCH: Three Tulsa Race Massacre survivors testify before Congress
Nearly one hundred years ago, one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Mass graves from ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre detected in Tulsa
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, scientists have revealed that they have found inconsistencies and irregularities in the city’s grounds that indicate the location of mass graves of Black victims of the 1921 Tulsa/Greenwood massacre