we know what happened 100 years ago. and it is time for the city of tulsa to do what is right and stand on the right side of history. the survivors, viola fletcher, lessie benningfield randle and hughes van ellis are all more than 100 years old. they were small children living in the greenwood section of town known as black wall street, a thriving back community in the middle of the jim yoa era. in 1921 a young black man was accused of assaulting a white teenage girl, a white mob including members of the tulsa sheriff s department torched roughly 35 blocks of homes and businesses. nearly wiping out the city s black residents. i on the night of the massacres i was awakened by my family. now 107 viola fletcher saw her community torn apart by that white mob. i think about it every day t is nothing i will never forget. no one was ever held accountable for what happened that day.