Ghana welcomes survivors of 1921 Tulsa massacre
Accra (AFP) - Two African American survivors of a century-old massacre in the United States were in Ghana Sunday with their grandchildren at the start of a visit to connect with their "motherland." Viola Fletcher, 107, known as 'Mother Fletcher', and her brother Hughes Van Ellis, 100, known as 'Uncle Red', are from the district of Greenwood in the Oklahoma city of Tulsa that was devastated in 1921 by a mob of armed white people. Up to 300 African Americans were killed in the attack on the area nicknamed "Black Wall Street" and some 10,000 left homeless when the district was set ablaze, leaving......
Aug 16, 2021
