Last remaining Tulsa Race Massacre survivors argue for appeal in lawsuit dismissal
Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Ford Fletcher went to the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday to appeal the dismissal of ...
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Viola Fletcher waited 102 years for reparations. She’s still waiting.
“Vi! Get up, child. If we don’t leave right now, we could end up dead.” What Viola Fletcher witnessed that night in 1921 has haunted her for a century. Her entire childhood had been set ablaz ...
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Tulsa race massacre survivors granted Ghanaian citizenship
Viola Fletcher and Hughes Van Ellis are said to be the oldest African-Americans to be granted citizenship of Ghana Two survivors of the 1921 massacre of black people in the US city of Tulsa have ...
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Emmett Till family and Tulsa Race Massacre survivors demand justice during DNC
Family members of Emmett Till and representatives of the Tulsa Race Massacre survivors gathered on the sidelines of the DNC ...
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A reparations case brought by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre's centenarian survivors was dismissed with prejudice
This means that Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108, Viola Fletcher, 109, and Hughes Van Ellis, 102, can not refile the suit in the Oklahoma district court it was originally filed in. However ...