A century after a White mob destroyed her prosperous Black community in 1921, she became a plaintiff in a symbolic lawsuit ...

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

The great shame of Viola Fletcher’s passing this week is that she never witnessed justice served for what was done over two ...

Supporting efforts to address the lingering wounds of the massacre is crucial.

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

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

The attack went largely unremembered for decades. In Oklahoma, wider discussions began when the state formed a commission in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Justice Department ...

Visiting Oklahoma, Garland expressed concern about ongoing domestic threats. In his first trip as the nation's top law enforcement official, Attorney General Merrick Garland visited the sites of two ...

Each year, Oklahoma leaders seem content to let June pass by without ordering our states’ flags be lowered in remembrance of one of the worst acts of racial violence in our nation’s history: the Tulsa ...

Viola Ford Fletcher was a child when the Tulsa Massacre happened, but she fought for justice for the victims of the massacre ...

Viola Fletcher rejoined her ancestors this week. She was 111 years old. At the time of her death, Fletcher was the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. When I first learned about it in the ...