Rest never came easily to Viola Ford Fletcher. The horror of what she experienced in Tulsa's Greenwood district in 1921 haunted her dreams.

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 ...

Mother Viola Fletcher, who carried the memory of Tulsa’s shame and the nation’s unfinished business longer than any other living soul, died on November 24 at age 111. She stood as the oldest known ...

Viola Fletcher survived the Tulsa Race Massacre at 7. She spent the next 104 years advocating for survivors of the tragedy.

Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, died on Monday at the age of 111, the city's mayor ...

Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years ...