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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.
I have lived through the massacre every day : Tulsa race massacre survivors testify before House committee By Zak Hudak
Updated on: May 19, 2021 / 1:34 PM / CBS News
Washington The last known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre are calling on Congress to consider paying reparations for the continued damage done to their Oklahoma community.
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties on Wednesday heard testimony from three centenarians about a violent mob s riot 100 years ago through the thriving Tulsa neighborhood of Greenwood, known at the time as Black Wall Street. I still see Black men being shot, black bodies lying in the street. I still smell smoke and see fire. I still see Black businesses being burned. I still hear airplanes flying overhead. I hear the screams, said Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the event. I have lived through the massacre every day.