Tulsa race massacre survivor Viola Fletcher listens during a rally marking centennial commemorations of a two-day assault by armed white men on Tulsa’s prosperous Black community of Greenwood ...
Viola Fletcher, known as “Mother Fletcher,” and Lessie Benningfield Randle, known as “Mother Randle,” are the last known living survivors, according to the DOJ, after Hugh Van Ellis ...
Attorneys representing survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre says representatives have spent days in Tulsa this week amid ...
Without comment, seven members of the court on Tuesday turned away the request by 110-year-old Viola Fletcher and 109-year-old Lessie Benningfield Randle to rehear its June ruling that upheld a ...
The last two remaining survivors of the historic 1921 assault – Viola Fletcher ("Mother Fletcher") and Lessie Benningfield Randle ("Mother Randle") – have for years called on the federal ...
This means that Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108, Viola Fletcher, 109, and Hughes Van Ellis, 102, can not refile the suit in the Oklahoma district court it was originally filed in. However ...
Simmons, and Democratic Texas Rep. Al Green spoke out during a press conference on Thursday afternoon after their meeting ...
The last two remaining survivors of the historic 1921 assault – Viola Fletcher ("Mother Fletcher") and Lessie Benningfield Randle ("Mother Randle") – have for years called on the federal government to ...