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Hughes Van Ellis, a survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has passed away at 102 without receiving reparations for the racist atrocities he endured. | TAG24
Hughes Van Ellis, who remained in the middle of a long legal battle for justice, has died at age 102
He was a few months old in 1921 when white mobs destroyed one of the wealthiest Black communities in the U.S.
Only two other survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre are still alive, Hughes Van Ellis' sister, Viola Ford Fletcher, 109 and Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108.
‘He died waiting on justice,’ grandnephew says of Ellis, who was an outspoken activist for reparations over the 1921 massacre