Viola Ford Fletcher, 109, is releasing a memoir about the life she lived in the shadow of the Tulsa Race Massacre, when a white mob laid waste to the once-thriving Black enclave known as Greenwood in Oklahoma.
Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Ford Fletcher speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, June 16, 2023, in New York. In the last couple of years, Fletcher has travelled internationally, testified before Congress and supported a lawsuit for reparations -- all part of a campaign for accountability over the massacre that destroyed Tulsa, Oklahoma's original "Black Wall Street" in 1921, when she was a child.
"Now that I'm an old lady, there's nothing else to talk about," Fletcher said. "We decided to do a book about it and maybe that would help." With the shoeshine under arrest, a Black militia gathered at a local jail to prevent a lynch mob from kidnapping and murdering him. Then, a separate violent clash between Black and white residents sparked an all-out war.
Victims' descendants believed that, once the conspiracy of silence around it was pierced decades later, justice and reparations for Tulsa's Black community would follow. That hasn't happened just yet -- Fletcher and two other centenarian survivors are currently plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the city of Tulsa.
"You can learn a lot from 'Don't Let Them Bury My Story.' And we know that history can repeat itself if you don't correct and reconcile issues," he added. "With that horrific scene, all of what occurred back in 1921 in Greenwood came flooding back into my mind," Fletcher writes in the book.
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