A press conference is set for Monday evening in Tulsa to announce a breakthrough in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
The federal review, launched under the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, is expected to be finalized by the end of ...
Lessie Benningfield Randle is 109 years old. Viola Fletcher is 110. They’ve lived through a century that most of us can only ...
Without comment, seven members of the court on Tuesday turned away the request by 110-year-old Viola Fletcher and 109-year-old Lessie Benningfield Randle to rehear its June ruling that upheld a ...
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a “review and evaluation” of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. That news Monday came ...
The Oklahoma Supreme Court denied a requestto reconsider a ruling that dismissed a lawsuit filed by the last two known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, the Associated Press reports.
The last two remaining survivors of the historic 1921 assault – Viola Fletcher ("Mother Fletcher") and Lessie Benningfield Randle ("Mother Randle") – have for years called on the federal ...
According to prepared remarks from Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, head of the department’s Civil Rights Division, ...