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schema:articleBody	Three Black centenarian survivors of one of the deadliest US race massacres appealed to Congress for justice Wednesday after a lifetime of pain triggered by a tragedy only now coming to light for many Americans. In gripping testimony, 107-year-old Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa, Oklahoma massacre of 1921, recalled the horrors of the attack -- and how she and others were left behind by a nation she accused of burying the past and moving on. "No one cared about us for almost 100 years. We and our history have been forgotten, washed away," she told a rapt House Judiciary Committee hearing. "This Congress must recognize us and our history." Fletcher, who dropped out of elementary school and suffered decades of poverty, said she has "lived through the massacre every day" for the past century. "I still see Black men being shot, Black bodies lying in the street.... I still see Black businesses being burned. I still hear the screams," she testified. "Our country may forget this history but I can not. I will not, and other survivors do not, and our descendants do not." The Tulsa massacre, in which up to 300 African Americans were killed when white mobs torched a Black neighborhood, remains a sensitive issue. Reparations were never paid to the families who lost their homes or businesses, and perpetrators of the violence were never charged. One hundred years later, the city of 400,000 -- which is about 15 percent Black -- is still divided. Last year, then-president Donald Trump enflamed tensions when he held a campaign rally in the city on Juneteenth, the unofficial holiday marking the end of slavery in the United States. Fletcher's 100-year-old brother Hughes Van Ellis, who was an infant when the burning and killing occurred, testified that surviving Black families were left with nothing, cast out as refugees in their own country. "We are asking for justice for a lifetime of ongoing harm," Van Ellis said. "Give us a chance to be made whole," he added. "Please do not let me leave this Earth without justice." mlm/st
schema:headline	Survivors of 1921 US race massacre in powerful plea to Congress
schema:mentions	University of Tulsa Centenarian Slavery in the United States United States House Committee on the Judiciary Protest Juneteenth Edmond, Oklahoma Pain African Americans Poverty Earth City United States Congress United States Donald Trump Warren Ellis
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schema:datePublished	2021-05-19 (xsd:date)
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