1921 Survivors of the Tulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre Testify Before Today’s Congressional Hearing

 

Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre, including 107-year-old Viola Fletcher,  100-year-old Hughes Van Ellis and 106-year-old Lessie Benningfield Randle, testified before a  hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties today.  Their painful testimony of the atrocities committed at that time and its erasure from historical memory brought to light the importance of our current issue on the “Ethics of Memory.”   

Here is a link to a video of the testimony given at the congressional committee hearing:  Continuing Injustice: The Centennial of theTulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre