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A Tulsa pastor is taking the first steps to designate a new state holiday. According to an initiative petition filed with the ...
A Tulsa woman wants June 1 designated as a day to remember the 1921 race massacre. Francetta L. Mays earlier this month filed ...
Renowned Tulsa saxophonist and Race Massacre survivor, Hal Singer, has passed away, just a few months shy of his 101st birthday. The French city of Chatou announced the news of his death. Singer ...
A Tulsa woman wants June 1 designated as a day to remember the 1921 race massacre. Francetta L. Mays earlier this month filed paperwork with the Oklahoma Secretary of State’s office in hopes of ...
Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Ford Fletcher, both 109 years old, went to the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday afternoon to appeal the dismissal of their lawsuit against the City of Tulsa for ...
Francetta L. Mays of Historic Vernon AME Church wants to designate June 1 as Greenwood Remembrance and Reconciliation Day to honor those who died and others who suffered as a result of the 1921 ...
Mother Viola Ford Fletcher is 111 years old—the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. She has lived through two world wars, the Civil Rights Movement, and one of the darkest chapters ...
Monday marks 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre, which is considered one of the worst incidents of racist violence in U.S. history. The horrific event occurred in Tulsa over a 14-hour period from ...
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