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Tulsa Race Massacre's Eldest Survivor Dies at 111
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Viola Fletcher Survived Tulsa Race Massacre

As a 7-year-old, 'Black Wall Street' resident saw horrors she said she could never forget

(Newser) - Viola Fletcher, who witnessed the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre as a child and was its eldest known survivor, has died. She was 111. In announcing her death Monday, Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols said, "Mother Fletcher endured more than anyone should, yet she spent her life lighting a path forward...

Tulsa Plans $100M Reparations Package for Race Massacre

Mayor Monroe Nichols says private trust to offer a 'road to repair'

(Newser) - Tulsa's new mayor on Sunday proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre scholarships and housing help in a city-backed bid to make amends for one of the worst racial attacks in US history . The plan...

1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Was 'Military-Style Attack'

Justice Department report concludes it was coordinated, not a mindless mob action

(Newser) - The Justice Department has finished its first-ever review of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst racial attacks in US history. Among the findings about the attack that left as many as 300 people dead and 1,200 homes, businesses, schools, and churches destroyed:
  • The attack was the
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Justice Department Announces Probe of 1921 Race Massacre

Two remaining Tulsa attack survivors, 109 and 110, celebrate the decision

(Newser) - For the first time, the federal government will investigate the 1921 massacre of nearly 300 people, most of them Black, in Tulsa. The Department of Justice announced the decision Monday, the Guardian reports. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said that when the review is complete, "we will issue a...

Race Massacre Search Finds More Remains

Two victims were shot with more than one weapon, another appeared to have been burned

(Newser) - The latest search for the remains of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims has found three more sets containing gunshot wounds, investigators said. The three are among 11 sets of remains exhumed during the latest excavation in Oaklawn Cemetery, state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck said Friday, per the AP . "Two of...

He Was Trying to Get Home to Mom, Was Killed in Race Massacre

CL Daniels is first victim to be named since new push for identification began in Tulsa Race Massacre

(Newser) - A five-year-old effort to identify victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre who were buried at Oaklawn Cemetery has returned the first name: CL Daniel, who was in his 20s. Tulsa Mayor GT Bynum on Friday said the WWI veteran's remains were identified using DNA from his six brothers' descendants....

Court Dismisses Lawsuit From Race Massacre Survivors

Oklahoma's top court upholds judge's decision

(Newser) - The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from the last two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The decision dampened the hope of advocates for racial justice that the government would make amends for one of the worst single acts of violence against Black people in US...

Some Bodies Exhumed Again in Tulsa Race Massacre Effort

Push to ID some of the victims continues

(Newser) - The process of re-exhuming of some of the 19 bodies exhumed a year ago for testing—in an effort to identify victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre—began Wednesday to gather more DNA from the remains. The latest exhumations of bodies that were taken from Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa,...

A Century Ago, They Lived Through a Rampage. Now, $1M

3 centenarians who lived through 1921's Tulsa Race Massacre will split gift

(Newser) - Only three survivors remain from the Tulsa Race Massacre , the 1921 attack in which a white mob descended upon the city's affluent Black neighborhood of Greenwood, torched more than 1,250 homes, and killed hundreds. That trio never received any reparations from either Tulsa or the state of Oklahoma,...

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