Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111

At 7, she bore witness to one of American history’s most violent spasms of racial violence. She was 106 when the nation reckoned with the crime.Viola Fletcher in 2023. The Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Okla., that became known as “Black Wall Street” took years to build — and one night of violence to destroy.