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The death of Van Ellis, a World War II veteran, leaves only two known survivors of the 1921 massacre that killed hundreds of Black residents.
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Hughes Van Ellis, who was the youngest known survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre and who spent his latter years pursuing justice for his family and other descendants of the attack on “Black Wall Street,” has died. He was 102.
On Monday, Hughes Van Ellis—one of the very last survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre—died at the age of 102. Van Ellis, who went by “Uncle Redd,” survived the 1921 harrowing act of terrorism that destroyed “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa. A white mob descended on the neighborhood, with around between 75 and 300 Black people being killed.
Hughes Van Ellis, who was the youngest known survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre and who spent his latter years pursuing justice for his family and other