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‘Mother’ Viola Fletcher Among 200 Black Wall Street Survivors Headed to Ghana

Viola Fletcher – affectionately known as Mother Fletcher – appeared on the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s morning breaking news program, “Let It Be Known,” on Monday, July 19, 2021.

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Mother Fletcher, who at 107-years old, witnessed most of the violence and horror of the Tulsa Greenwood Massacre firsthand, says that she’s been haunted every day of her long life with terrible dreams and memories. “On that first night,” Mother Fletcher recounted, “I went to bed in my family’s home in Greenwood, a community that was rich, not only in terms of wealth, but in culture, community, and heritage. My family had a beautiful home. We had great neighbors, and I had friends to play with.

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