One of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre’s last survivors, Viola Ford Fletcher, dies at 111

One of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre’s last survivors, Viola Ford Fletcher, dies at 111

FTulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Ford Fletcher gestures while speaking during an interview with The Associated Press in New York.

DALLAS — Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving Black community where she lived as a child, has died. She was 111.

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