By Cherranda Smith
Jun 4, 2021
Three living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre are set to be gifted $100,000 each from the Justice for Greenwood Foundation. The survivors and recipients of the Foundation’s gift, Mother
Viola Fletcher, Mother
Lessie Benningfield Randle, and
Hughes Van Ellis recently testified before Congress asking lawmakers to acknowledge the reality of racial violence in America and to make adequate reparations.
“This gift for the survivors of the Tulsa massacre shows that we have the power to demand justice for Black communities in Tulsa and all across the country,” Justice for Greenwood Foundation founder and executive director
Biden is helping commemorate the deaths of hundreds of Black people killed by a white mob a century ago, his visit coming amid a national reckoning on racial justice.
After the 100th anniversary, questions remain over how to remember one of the worst acts of racial terror in U.S. history and what the victims are owed.
Biden declared that the nation must learn from its “dark sides” as he became the first president to lead a remembrance ceremony in Tulsa for victims of the long overlooked racist massacre.