The recent passing of Queen Mother Viola Ford Fletcher, at age 111, marked a profound loss in the ongoing fight for justice ...
A century after a White mob destroyed her prosperous Black community in 1921, she became a plaintiff in a symbolic lawsuit ...
Mother Viola Fletcher survived the Tulsa Race Massacre at 7. She spent the next 104 years advocating for survivors of the tragedy.
Viola "Mother" Fletcher, one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died at 111, leaving behind a legacy of resilience and advocacy for justice.
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 ...
Since at least 1921, Fletcher and the other survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre have known something that America did not: That phrase was never true. Eric Foster, a community member of the editorial ...
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 ...
Each year, Oklahoma leaders seem content to let June pass by without ordering our states’ flags be lowered in remembrance of one of the worst acts of racial violence in our nation’s history: the Tulsa ...
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died at 111, leaving behind a powerful legacy of resilience, advocacy, and a lifelong fight to preserve the truth of Black ...
DALLAS (AP) — 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 ...
Viola Fletcher rejoined her ancestors this week. She was 111 years old. At the time of her death, Ms. Fletcher was the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. When I first learned about it in ...
DALLAS — 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 ...