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struggle4progress

(118,278 posts)
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 04:26 AM Mar 2018

Survivor of Tulsa Race Riot passes

Megan Allison
3:50 PM, Mar 9, 2018
1:21 PM, Mar 10, 2018

TULSA ... On May 31, 1921 gangs of white Tulsans lit fires throughout the African-American community of Greenwood. Thousands said goodbye to homes, and hundreds lost their lives. Almost a hundred years later, the Jones family said there's still work to do.

"That we can all come together as one and stop being so divided. Because these many years later, we're still divided," grandson Rasahd Woodrow said ...

Hazel fought for reparations for survivors of the riot for years ... But her family sees her as more ... They tell us she was the kindest person they ever knew ...

"This is the meeting place. This is where everybody came to gather around, especially on Sunday. This was where the place to be was. It's going to be an adjustment since she's not here anymore" ...

https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/last-local-survivor-of-1921-tulsa-race-riot-passes-away-at-99

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