One of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre’s last survivors, Viola Ford Fletcher, dies age 111

Viola Ford Fletcher Tulsa survivor dies at 111

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest known survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died at 111. As a child she watched Black Wall Street burn, survived the terror that destroyed her community, and spent the next century demanding that the nation confront the truth. Her testimony before Congress helped push the Justice Department to publicly acknowledge the massacre as a coordinated attack that killed hundreds of Black residents. Fletcher’s lega…

The Last Voice: Viola Ford Fletcher and the Unfinished Legacy of Tulsa

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest known survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, died November 24, 2025, at age 111, taking with her memories of gospel hymns echoing through a thriving neighborhood—and the screams that silenced them forever. Her passing, announced by Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols, marks not just the loss of a witness to history, but the closing of a chapter in America’s ongoing reckoning with racial violence and its generational tol…

Viola Fletcher, survivor of Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 111 – Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group

Viola Fletcher By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer TULSA, Okla. — Viola Fletcher, the oldest known survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, died Nov. 24. She was 111.  Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols said Fletcher’s death marks a moment of mourning for a city still learning how to reckon with its own truth.  “Today, our city mourns the loss of mother Viola Fletcher, a survivor of one of the darkest chapters in our city’s history,” Nichols said. “M…

One of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre’s last survivors, Viola Ford Fletcher, dies at age 111

Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Ford Fletcher gestures while speaking during an interview with The Associated Press, June 16, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) By Jamie Stengle ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS — Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving Black community where she lived as a c…

Viola Fletcher, oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 111

From Tulsa to Ghana, Mother Fletcher’s Long Journey Comes to a Close at 111

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent 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 survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, the burning of Greenwood, and the attempted erasure of Black prosperity that white mobs tried to silence forever. Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols said …