Candice Norwood

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Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died at 111. In the final years of her life, she and other survivors shared their stories publicly, bringing a more nuanced awareness about the legacy of that day.

On the night of May 31, 1921, 7-year-old Fletcher was asleep in bed as the city around her began to burn.

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An angry mob of White residents had descended on the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, burning and looting homes and businesses in the thriving majority-Black neighborhood, known as “Black Wa

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