Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111

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4. Thank you. So many gone... RIP, Ms. Fletcher.

In 2020, Fletcher and the other survivors filed suit against the city of Tulsa, the Tulsa Board of Commissioners and the Oklahoma Military Department, seeking reparations. The suit was dismissed by Tulsa County District Judge Caroline Wall in July 2023.[7]
She testified about reparations before the U.S. Congress on May 19, 2021, along with her 100-year-old brother Hughes and Lessie Benningfield Randle, who was 106.[2] Fletcher told Congress:[8]

"I will never forget the violence of the white mob when we left our home,” she said, “I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street. I still smell smoke and see fire. I still see Black businesses being burned. I still hear airplanes flying overhead. I hear the screams."

She testified that the city of Tulsa had used the names of victims and images of the massacre to generate money for the city.[4]
In 2022, Fletcher, her brother, and Randle received $1 million from New York philanthropist Ed Mitzen.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Fletcher