Viola Fletcher waited 102 years for reparations. She’s still waiting. The oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Massacre is a key witness for a national movement gaining momentum ...

Viola Fletcher, oldest living survivor of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, celebrates 110th birthday. Fletcher was 7 years old when a Black man was allegedly accused of sexual assault after riding in an ...

Viola Ford Fletcher, 109, has released “Don’t Let Them Bury My Story,” which her grandson and co-author, Ike Howard, says took her a lifetime to write, Fox 23 News reported. The book’s ...

Viola Ford Fletcher was a mere seven years old when she was forced to reckon with hatred and racism in America. The date was May 31. The place was the Greenwood section of Tulsa, ...

Fletcher’s mother, Lucinda Ellis, had already given birth to five of Viola’s seven siblings before May 10, 1914, when Viola came into the world. Her father, John Wesley Ford, was a sharecropper.

Mary Altaffer / AP Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Ford Fletcher gestures while speaking during an interview with The Associated Press, Friday, June 16, 2023, in New York.

Viola Fletcher – affectionately known as Mother Fletcher – appeared on the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s morning breaking news program, “Let It Be Known,” on Monday, July ...

Viola Fletcher, 109, inside Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library on Aug. 24. Gioncarlo Valentine Fletcher with her grandson, Ike Howard, at Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library.

Bundt cakes spell 110 for Viola Fletcher, one of the two remaining survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, who celebrated her 110th birthday with family in Little Elm, Texas, May 10, 2024.

Viola Fletcher and her 100-year-old brother flew in August from Oklahoma to Ghana, where they were honored by the West African nation for their resilience and fearlessness.

A very happy birthday is in order for Viola Fletcher. Fletcher is the oldest known living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. She was just 7 years old when tragedy, fueled by racism, rocked ...

Viola Fletcher is the oldest known living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre — and she recently celebrated a milestone birthday. Fletcher, who was just 7 years old when tragedy rocked the ...