Survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre Demand Justice 100 Years Later

On May 19th the three remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre testified before the United States Congress. Their calls for justice and recompense were loud and clear.

107-year-old Viola Fletcher is the oldest surviving member of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that left hundreds of Black Tulsa residents dead; Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images

Viola Fletcher was seven years old in 1921 when an angry white mob desecrated Tulsa’s thriving Black neighborhood of Greenwood, commonly known as “Black Wall Street”, in one …