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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 ...
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) –
As many as 300 Black people were killed; more than 1,200 homes, businesses, schools ... Attorneys for the last two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre asked the Oklahoma Supreme ...
Tulsa Race Massacre survivors Lessie Benningfield Randle, Viola Fletcher, and Hughes Van Ellis in 2021. Van Ellis died in 2023. A lawsuit over the Tulsa Race Massacre has been tossed by the ...
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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 County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler charged Shelby with first-degree manslaughter. [31] [32] Shelby turned herself in at the Tulsa County Jail on the early morning of September 23, 2016, where she was booked, posted a bond of $50,000 and was released. [33] Shelby was accused of "unlawfully and unnecessarily" shooting Crutcher. [34]
Three survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, their lawyers and a host of supporters celebrated a judge's decision to allow their lawsuit to move forward.