110-year-old Viola Ford Fletcher cast her vote for Kamala Harris in Oklahoma, CNN reported. The woman is the oldest known survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
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– I feel good voting. It's important to vote, said Viola Ford Fletcher, who is one of the oldest voters, if not the oldest, in her state. A woman survived the Tulsa race massacre in 1921.
Fletcher, accompanied by her grandchildren Ike and Tracey, voted at a polling place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in a room called “Greenwood” – a neighborhood that was destroyed in a racial massacre. Fletcher cast her vote for Kamala Harris.
Viola Ford FletcherPhoto from February 28, 2023Brian Stukes/Getty Images
Fletcher's photos and an account of her vote were shown on X by CNN journalist Abby D. Phillip.
Tulsa massacre
Greenwood, known as “Black Wall Street,” was the site of one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history. Then, as many as 300 black people were killed and over 1,000 homes, businesses, schools and churches were destroyed when a mob of white people looted and burned the neighborhood.
Lessie Benningfield Randle, one of the survivors of the massacre cited by CNN, admitted last week that she cast her absentee ballot for Kamala Harris. “I don't know how much I have left. But if this is my last vote, I am grateful that I cast it for Kamala Harris,” the 109-year-old said in a press release. “I have five children and over 20 grandchildren. Vice President Harris has a better chance of building the nation I want them to inherit,” she added.
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