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The centennial commission raised $30 million, not giving a cent of it to those three survivors and ms. viola fletcher was here and testified on the hill a couple weeks ago, she testified she struggles to support herself financially. it is as they say a crying shame, and i hope that someones able to address it. great to see you as always. and this saturday tiffany is anchoring a special two hour edition of her program live from the historic greenwood district in tulsa. dont miss the cross connect...

Greenwood prior to race massacre was actively suppressed. official records were stolen and destroyed, articles cut out of newspapers. tulsa daily newspapers refused to write about it for more than a half century. people researching it had their lives and livelihoods threatened. so for 50 years it was buried and its taken another 50 years to get this story out. >> yeah, and tiffany, i know you interviewed the 107-year-old viola fletcher, who just seemed so lovely and gave her testimony. she was l...

>> reporter: 107-year-old viola fletcher is one of three living survivors of the massacre. >> i dont remember what time it was. but it was at night. we scrambled around and got ready to get dressed and we left in what you call a covered wagon or was drawn by horses. horse and buggy. on our way out, with he could see people running. and people laying on the ground probably bleeding from being shot and killed and smelled smoke with houses burning. and heard the noise of airplanes flying. and so it...

Nothing, the three names youve got miss lessee beddingfield randall at 16. viola ford fletcher ate 107. mr. hughes van alice, true treasures and remind us who we are and how far we having to to go. as long as we got life we can get it right. we ask folks to do the right thing. yeah, we could talk about this for quite a while. yes i always have something to say on this issue. thank you all for having me. >> regina, good representative thank you for being with us to tell this story. >> again, the ...

Mrs. viola ford fletcher at 107. mr. hughes van alice at a hundred. what looks like is cash in their hand so they might be comfortable in their lives. they suffered directly. for all those figuring out where do we start? i can give you three names to start. justice looks like many things. whether it has to do with economic development, whether it has to do with scholarships, whether it has to do with land and the distribution of that land. so that buildings might be built and businesses made. so...

Greenwood at that time? >> gentlemen, absolutely. first of all it was a mindset. and people had come to this area with the intent of growing and quite frankly being safe from racism. and a number of black townships in this territory were developed because people understood that while some folks did not see them as fully human they saw themselves as wholly and fully worthy of the best life lass to offer. they came this area and my great greater was one, mr. sango invited him it was about building...

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The committee that she still lives with the horror of that time. >> some may forget this history but i cannot, i will not. and other survivors do not. and our descendants do not. i am 107 years old and have never seen justice. i pray that one day i will. >> on tuesday, the nation will mark one year since the murder of george floyd under the knee of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. at the behest of the governor, minnesotas state attorney general, keith ellison, took over the prose...

There have been so many scandals and investigations in the trump orbit that you may have forgotten about the one stemming from his very first day in office. the washington, d.c. attorney general says that trumps inaugural committee misused over $1 million of the $107 million they raised for the 2017 inauguration. in order to enrich his familys businesses. someone who can not forget about that investigation, however, is donald trumps longtime chief financial officer, allen weisselberg. last night...

To the index and t to the index and to a powerful moment on capitol hill today. 107-year-old viola fletcher, the oldest survivor of the 1921 tulsa race massacre, making her first trip to washington to testify before congress. sharing her painful memories of the violent white mob killing hundreds of black people in greenwood, nearly a century ago. >> i hear the screams. i have lived through the massacre every day. our country may forget this history, but i cannot. >> viola fletcher among three ...