Webcnn — viola fletcher was 7 years old when she witnessed one of worst acts of racial violence the us has ever seen. An angry white mob rampaged through. Webviola fletcher, 110, and lessie benningfield randle, 109, are the last known survivors of one of the single worst acts of violence against black people in u. s. Webchicago—one hundred and three years after they and their parents had to flee for their lives, viola fletcher, now aged 110, and lessie benningfield randle, now. House of representatives on the behalf of other survivors of the tulsa. Webfletcher and two other survivors of the 1921 tulsa race massacre, her younger brother hughes van ellis and lessie benningfield randle, testified before a. Webattorneys for the two remaining survivors of the 1921 tulsa race massacre said thursday they will petition the oklahoma supreme court for a rehearing in the. Webit's been 100 years since white mobs killed hundreds of residents and completely destroyed 35 blocks of a thriving black community in oklahoma, but viola fletcher, the oldest living.
