Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died at the age of 111, Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols announced Monday. "Today, our city mourns the loss of Mother Viola ...

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, died at 111 years old Monday, her grandson Ike Howard told CNN. Oklahoma State Senator Regina Goodwin said she was with the ...

OUTSIDE, it is pitch black by teatime and the dropping temperature requires a raid on the winter woollies in the wardrobe – autumn is in full swing. If the long descent into winter affects your mood ...

At 7, she bore witness to one of American history’s most violent spasms of racial violence. She was 106 when the nation reckoned with the crime. By Alex Traub Viola Fletcher, who as a child in 1921 ...

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 ...

Private memoirs reveal how my great great great grandfather helped build one of the most prosperous Black communities in the U.S. J.B. Stradford, the author's ancestor, built a fortune from very ...

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People place white roses at a memorial plaque for the victims of the 1989 Ecole Polytechnique massacre in Montreal, Saturday, December 6, 2025. Today marks the 36th anniversary of the shooting by an ...