Tulsa Ancestor’s Legacy Underscores Lasting Fight for Reparations

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Queen Mother and Founder of the VFF Foundation, Viola Ford Fletcher, at the Oldest Living Tulsa Oklahoma Massacre Survivors Celebrated And Book Cover Revealing at The City Club of Washington in Washington, DC, US, February 28, 2023. © 2023 Brian Stukes/Getty Images The recent passing of Queen Mother Viola Ford Fletcher, at age 111, marked a profound loss in the ongoing fight for justice for survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, the racist attack that left hundreds of Black people dead and more than 1,200 Black-owned houses burned to the ground. As the oldest…

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