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May 19, 2021 10:14 PM EDT
(Photo : Pixabay/OrnaW) One hundred seventy-year-old Viola Fletcher was seven years old when she served as a witness to one of most heinous acts of racial violence the United States has seen. Historians now believe there were as many as 300 people fatalities.
One hundred seventeen-year-old Viola Fletcher was seven years old when she served as a witness to one of the most heinous acts of racial violence the United States has seen. A mad White mob ran amok in the Greenwood District of Tulsa in Oklahoma. Hundreds of Black people were reportedly killed, leaving her thriving neighborhood in ashes in 1921.