One of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre’s last survivors, Viola Ford Fletcher, dies age 111

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Original Load Date Nov. 24, 2025, 6:01 p.m.
Last Updated Nov. 24, 2025, 6:01 p.m.
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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 Black community where she lived as a child, has died. She was 111. Her grandson Ike Howard said Monda...