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General News of Thursday, 19 August 2021

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Photo Story: Living survivors of Tulsa Race massacre visits Nigerian community

Mrs Viola Floyd Fletcher and her brother, Hughes Van Ellis with members of the Nigerian community Mrs Viola Floyd Fletcher and her brother, Hughes Van Ellis with members of the Nigerian community

The known living survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 were welcomed to Ghana by the Nigerian community on Wednesday, August 18, 2021, in a grand ceremony.

Mrs Viola Floyd Fletcher and her brother, Hughes Van Ellis, popularly known as Uncle Red, were heavily celebrated and honoured by chiefs and other members of the Nigerian community.

They are both 107 years and 100 years respectively.

The Tulsa race massacre took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents and destroyed homes and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US.

View pictures from the event organized in celebration of the survivors by the Nigerian community below: