Overview
- Tulsa officials announced the death of Viola Fletcher, who survived the 1921 destruction of Greenwood.
- In 2021 testimony to Congress, she said she still saw bodies in the streets and smelled smoke, declaring she relives the massacre every day.
- Fletcher joined a 2020 reparations lawsuit against the city of Tulsa that the Oklahoma Supreme Court later dismissed.
- The city unveiled a $105 million trust fund in June intended to address ongoing impacts of the massacre.
- With Fletcher's passing, Leslie Benningfield Randle is the last known living eyewitness to the violence in Greenwood.