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Viola Fletcher (née Ford; born May 10, 1914), also known as Mother Fletcher, is the oldest known living survivor of the Tulsa race massacre and a supercentenarian.One hundred years after the massacre, she testified before Congress about the need for reparations.
Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Ford Fletcher gestures while speaking during an interview with The Associated Press, Friday, June 16, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) –
Viola Fletcher, 110, and Lessie Benningfield Randle, 109, are the last known survivors of one of the single worst acts of violence against Black people in U.S. history.
Fondly known as “Mother Randle,” Lessie Benningfield Randle, one of two living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, celebrated […]
Olivia Juliette Hooker (February 12, 1915 – November 21, 2018) was an American psychologist and professor. She was a survivor of the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, and the first African-American woman to enter the U.S. Coast Guard.
In a photo provided by the city of Tulsa, a monument to honor people found or exhumed during a probe into the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre stands in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Tuesday, November 12 ...
Survivors of the 1921 attack sought justice with a decades-in-the-making legal battle ... Tulsa Race Massacre survivors Lessie Benningfield Randle, Viola Fletcher, and Hughes Van Ellis in 2021 ...
Local Tulsa news stations still to this day are hesitant to cover her case due to Carlton's family owning and operating dealerships which buy ad time from them. [3] [4] Her case caused an "outcry from those who say she acted because of battered woman syndrome." [5] As of 2022, she was going into her 25th year of incarceration. [6]