By Jasper Ward

(Reuters) -Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, died on Monday at the age of 111, the city’s mayor said.

“Today, our city mourns the loss of Mother Viola Fletcher – a survivor of one of the darkest chapters in our city’s history,” Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols wrote on social media.

“Mother Fletcher endured more than anyone should, yet she spent her life lighting a path forward with purpose.”

Fletcher was born in Comanche, Oklahoma, just south of Oklahoma City, moving to Tulsa with her family during her childhood.

She was seven at the time of the massacre that began on May 31, 1921, when white attackers killed as many as 300 people, most of them Black, in Tulsa’s prosperous Greenwood neighborhood. The mob also burned and looted Greenwood h

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