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Tulsa Race Massacre: FGCU professor, 2 students to help in dig at gravesite


An FGCU professor and two graduate students were heading to Tulsa on the 100th anniversary of one of the worst chapters of racial violence in U.S. history.
Heather Walsh-Haney, a Florida Gulf Coast University associate professor, and students Cahjanae Henfield and Leslie Urgelles will continue work at an excavation site where human remains were unearthed last fall from the 1921 Tulsa race massacre.
Walsh-Haney, chair of FGCU s Department of Justice Studies, participated in the dig in October with FGCU grad student Sonya Concepcion Jones. They joined other human excavators who found at least 11 bodies in coffins in an unmarked mass grave in a Tulsa cemetery. ....

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The Tulsa Race Massacre was 100 years ago. Its Oldest Living Survivor, Viola Fletcher, Told Her Story to Congress.


The Tulsa Race Massacre was 100 years ago. Its Oldest Living Survivor, Viola Fletcher, Told Her Story to Congress.
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The Tulsa Race Massacre was 100 years ago. Its Oldest Living Survivor, Viola Fletcher, Told Her Story to Congress.
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At age 107, Viola Fletcher has seen plenty of life, but she’d never traveled to the nation’s capital. Recently, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre appeared before members of Congress seeking long overdue justice for her people and community.
“I’m here asking my country to acknowledge what happened in Tulsa in 1921,” she said. ....

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Watch Live: Tulsa race massacre survivors testify before House committee


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 ever ....

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