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Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Ford Fletcher gestures while speaking during a 2023 interview.

Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Ford Fletcher gestures while speaking during a 2023 interview.

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Oldest survivor of Tulsa Race Massacre dies at 111

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 child, has died. She was 111.