Fletcher was 7 years old when a Black man was allegedly accused of sexual assault after riding in an elevator with a white woman, sparking the Tulsa Race Massacre. After over a century, Viola ...
The Black Wall Street was destroyed in the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921. There are now two remaining survivors as the search ...
After over a century, Viola Fletcher is grateful to still be among the living. On May 5, Fletcher, the oldest surviving witness of the Tulsa Race Massacre, celebrated her 110th birthday surrounded ...
LITTLE ELM — Viola Ford Fletcher sat on a leather couch dressed in her favorite color, yellow. Inside the Little Elm home, the elderly woman greeted what looked like a receiving line of family ...
The survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, which is considered one of the most heinous acts of racial violence in U.S. history, can vividly remember when a white mob destroyed the robust all ...
Viola ''Mother'' Fletcher was just 7 years old during the deadly racist violence that destroyed the Tulsa neighborhood known ...