IN MEMORIAM: Hughes Van Ellis, Survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 102

Along with his older sister, Viola Fletcher, months-old Hughes Van Ellis fled the white mobs and fires that tore through the Greenwood District in Tulsa leaving behind rubble and ash. Not only did they lose their homes, they also lost a lifetime of opportunities, Van Ellis told CNN earlier this year. “I lost 102 years. I don’t want nobody else to lose that,” he said. “He died waiting on justice,” his grandnephew, Ike Howard, told CNN.

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