With her grandson Ike Howard, 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Fletcher views the “Lynching in America: The Tulsa Community Remembrance Project,” which displays of jars of soil collected from lynching sites in Tulsa, at Gilcrease Museum on Thursday.
Tiffany Crutcher, founder and executive director of the Terence Crutcher Foundation, puts a hand on Tulsa Race Massacre survivors Lessie Benningfield Randle (left) and Viola Fletcher as community organizer Greg Robinson speaks at the “Legacy of Survival” exhibit at Gilcrease Museum on Thursday.
Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Lessie Benningfield Randle (seated) is applauded by her grandaughter LaDonna Penny and Tiffany Crutcher after speaking at the opening of the “Legacy of Survival” event at Gilcrease Museum on Thursday.
Heather Smith with Story File asks questions about the Tulsa Race Massacre of an interactive video of survivor Viola Fletcher at the Tulsa Race Massacre exhibit “Legacy of Survival,” at Gilcrease Museum Thursday, May 27, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla.
Lessie Benningfield Randle views the Tulsa Race Massacre exhibit “Legacy of Survival,” at Gilcrease Museum Thursday, May 27, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla. Benningfield Randle was viewing soil collected from the spots where victims were killed.
Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors Viola Fletcher(left) listens as Lessie Benningfield Randle speaks at the Tulsa Race Massacre exhibit “Legacy of Survival,” at Gilcrease Museum Thursday, May 27, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla. Benningfield Randle was viewing soil collected from the spots were victims were killed.
Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors Viola Fletcher attends the Tulsa Race Massacre exhibit “Legacy of Survival,” at Gilcrease Museum Thursday, May 27, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla.
Tulsa Race Massacre survivors Viola Fletcher(left) and Lessie Benningfield Randle view the Tulsa Race Massacre exhibit “Legacy of Survival,” at Gilcrease Museum Thursday, May 27, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla.
Tulsa Race Massacre Survivor Lessie Benningfield Randle speaks at the Tulsa Race Massacre exhibit “Legacy of Survival,” at Gilcrease Museum Thursday, May 27, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla. Benningfield Randle was viewing soil collected from the spots were victims were killed.
Tulsa Race Massacre survivors Lessie Benningfield Randle(left) and Viola Fletcher enter the Tulsa Race Massacre exhibit “Legacy of Survival,” at Gilcrease Museum Thursday, May 27, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla.
Soil collected from the spots where victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre were killed at the Tulsa Race Massacre exhibit “Legacy of Survival,” at Gilcrease Museum Thursday, May 27, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla.
Asked what she thought of a new exhibit in her honor, Lessie Benningfield “Mother” Randle got laughs from those assembled at the Gilcrease Museum on Thursday when she started her response by complimenting the image of Viola “Mother” Fletcher on the screen in front of her.
Video from May 19, 2021 via C-SPAN. Viola Fletcher, who just turned 107, said in an address that she is "asking my country to acknowledge what happened in Tulsa in 1921."
Additional coverage as the 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre nears
With her grandson Ike Howard, 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Fletcher views the “Lynching in America: The Tulsa Community Remembrance Project,” which displays of jars of soil collected from lynching sites in Tulsa, at Gilcrease Museum on Thursday.
Tiffany Crutcher, founder and executive director of the Terence Crutcher Foundation, puts a hand on Tulsa Race Massacre survivors Lessie Benningfield Randle (left) and Viola Fletcher as community organizer Greg Robinson speaks at the “Legacy of Survival” exhibit at Gilcrease Museum on Thursday.
Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Lessie Benningfield Randle (seated) is applauded by her grandaughter LaDonna Penny and Tiffany Crutcher after speaking at the opening of the “Legacy of Survival” event at Gilcrease Museum on Thursday.
Heather Smith with Story File asks questions about the Tulsa Race Massacre of an interactive video of survivor Viola Fletcher at the Tulsa Race Massacre exhibit “Legacy of Survival,” at Gilcrease Museum Thursday, May 27, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla.
Lessie Benningfield Randle views the Tulsa Race Massacre exhibit “Legacy of Survival,” at Gilcrease Museum Thursday, May 27, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla. Benningfield Randle was viewing soil collected from the spots where victims were killed.
Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors Viola Fletcher(left) listens as Lessie Benningfield Randle speaks at the Tulsa Race Massacre exhibit “Legacy of Survival,” at Gilcrease Museum Thursday, May 27, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla. Benningfield Randle was viewing soil collected from the spots were victims were killed.
Tulsa Race Massacre Survivor Lessie Benningfield Randle speaks at the Tulsa Race Massacre exhibit “Legacy of Survival,” at Gilcrease Museum Thursday, May 27, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla. Benningfield Randle was viewing soil collected from the spots were victims were killed.
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