By: Kelton Brooks The 1921 Tulsa Massacre occurred a century ago, yet the ear-piercing screams, suffocating smoke and deaths by the hands of white supremacy, still devastate the last two survivors. “On that first night, in 1921, I went to bed in my family's home in Greenwood,' said Viola Fletcher, 107, in a statement published by the Diaspora African Forum. 'I had everything a child could need… But within a few horrible hours, all of that was gone.” Related: Remembering the Tulsa Massacre 100 years later Fletcher and her brother, Hughes Van Ellis, are from the district of Greenwood in the Oklahoma City of Tulsa, where more than 800 people were treated for injuries and entire blocks were […]
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