"She impacted so many people's lives… So it was just amazing to see so many people come out," said a funeral attendee.
Family, community members, and city leaders gathered in Tulsa and Bartlesville to honor Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest known survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, who died at age 111. Memorial ...
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 ...
The oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre died yesterday. Viola Ford Fletcher was 111 years old. Elizabeth Caldwell from member station KWGS has this remembrance. ELIZABETH CALDWELL, BYLINE: ...
TULSA, Okla. — A Tulsa icon and one of only two known remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre passed away at the age of 111. FOX23 was there earlier this year when Mother Viola Fletcher ...
TULSA, Oklahoma — Viola Ford Fletcher, one of the last living witnesses to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, died Monday at 111, Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols confirmed. Her death marks the near end of a ...
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, died at the age of 111 on Monday, in a hospital surrounded by her family, according to her grandson. “Mother Fletcher endured ...
Known as "Mother Fletcher," the 111-year-old was just 7 when a two-day attack led by a White mob began in Tulsa's Greenwood neighborhood on May 31, 1921 Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter ...
OKLAHOMA CITY — Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, died on Monday, Nov. 24, at the age of 111, the city's mayor said. "Today, our city mourns the loss of Mother ...
The oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre has died at the age of 111. Viola Ford Fletcher was 7 years old when she survived a wave of attacks by racist white mobs who set fire to homes, ...
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