Rest never came easily to Viola Ford Fletcher. The horror of what she experienced in Tulsa's Greenwood district in 1921 haunted her dreams.
Zoeller was the last player to win the Masters on his first attempt, a three-man playoff in 1979. He famously waved a white ...
Viola Ford Fletcher — known to the world as Mother Fletcher is the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and ...
Celebration of life services for 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Fletcher will be at noon Saturday at the Center for ...
The Embassy of the Diaspora Affairs Foundation (DAF) has announced the passing of Queen Mother Viola Ford Fletcher, affectionately remembered as a symbol of resilience and a living testimony of one of ...
In Greenwood, she was a child watching terror reshape a world that had promised her nothing but possibility. For more than a century, she bore witness so the country could never again pretend not to ...
She left her words in the archives of Oklahoma State University through oral histories that insisted history would not escape the sound of her voice. Her labor began early. During World War II, she ...
Viola Fletcher survived the Tulsa Race Massacre at 7. She spent the next 104 years advocating for survivors of the tragedy.
The attack went largely unremembered for decades. In Oklahoma, wider discussions began when the state formed a commission in ...