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Mother Viola Fletcher Among 200 Black Wall Street Survivors Headed to Ghana

By Stacy Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia On the evening of May 31st, 1921, a vicious white mob from neighboring Tulsa, Oklahoma, descended on the prosperous African American community of Greenwood, intent on murdering, looting and burning that community to the ground. In the aftermath of the nightmare that unfolded for Greenwood’s Black […]

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