Ellis spent his latter years pursuing justice for his family and other descendants of the attack on ‘Black Wall Street’
Hughes Van Ellis, who was the youngest known survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre and who spent his latter years pursuing justice for his family and other descendants of the attack on “Black Wall Street,” has died. He was 102.
“I’ll remember each time that Uncle Redd’s passionate voice reached hearts and minds in courtrooms, halls of Congress, and interviews,” said Damario Solomon-Simmons, one of the attorneys who has pursued compensation for the survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Tensions between Tulsa’s Black and white residents inflamed when, on May 31, 1921, the white-owned Tulsa Tribune published a sensationalized report of an alleged assault by a 19-year-old Black shoeshine on a 17-year-old white girl working as an elevator operator.
Although residents rebuilt Greenwood – the predominantly African American neighbourhood known as Black Wall Street – urban renewal and a highway project pushed Black Tulsans out of the area. Van Ellis, whose words from his 2021 testimony to Congress serve as the foreword to Fletcher’s memoir “Don’t Let Them Bury My Story,” said he believed justice was possible in his lifetime.
Ochoa, the family publicist, said Van Ellis is survived by a large family, including daughters Mallee and Muriel Van Ellis, who were his two primary caregivers in Denver.
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