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Viola Fletcher (Viola Ford) was born on 5 May, 1914 in Comanche, Oklahoma, U.S.. Discover Viola Fletcher's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 109 years old?
| Popular As |
Viola Ford |
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| Age |
110 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Taurus |
| Born |
5 May 1914 |
| Birthday |
5 May |
| Birthplace |
Comanche, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Nationality |
Oman |
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Viola Fletcher Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Viola Fletcher's Husband?
Her husband is Robert Fletcher (m. 1932)
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Robert Fletcher (m. 1932) |
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3 |
Viola Fletcher Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Viola Fletcher worth at the age of 110 years old? Viola Fletcher’s income source is mostly from being a successful . She is from Oman. We have estimated
Viola Fletcher's net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Pending |
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Under Review |
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Not Available |
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Timeline
In 2022, Fletcher, her brother, and Randle received $1M from New York philanthropist Ed Mitzen.
Fletcher testified about reparations before the U.S. Congress on May 19, 2021, along with her 100-year-old brother Hughes and Lessie Benningfield Randle, who was 106.
In August 2021 Fletcher and her brother Hughes visited Ghana. They met with Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo. She was crowned a queen mother and given several Ghanaian names, including Naa Lamiley, which means, “Somebody who is strong. Somebody who stands the test of time”, Naa Yaoteley, which means “the first female child in a family or bloodline”, and Ebube Ndi Igbo.
Fletcher was interviewed in 2014 for an oral history project conducted by the Oklahoma Oral History Research program and the Oklahoma State University College of Human Sciences.
In 1932, at the age of 18, she married Robert Fletcher and moved with him to California, where they both worked in shipyards, Viola as an assistant welder. They returned to Oklahoma after World War II and raised three children while she worked cleaning houses. Fletcher worked until she was 85.
Her family, including four of her siblings, was living in Greenwood, a wealthy Black neighborhood of Tulsa, at the time of the massacre. Fletcher was seven years old at the time of the massacre. She was in bed asleep on May 31, 1921, when the massacre began; her mother woke the family and they fled. The family lost everything but the clothes they were wearing. She is the oldest known survivor of the massacre. She sleeps sitting up on her couch with the lights on.
Viola Fletcher (née Ford; born May 5, 1914), also known as Mother Fletcher, is the oldest known survivor of the Tulsa race massacre. One hundred years after the massacre, she testified before Congress about the need for reparations.
Fletcher was born May 5, 1914, in Comanche, Oklahoma to Lucinda Ellis and John Wesley Ford. She was the second oldest of eight children. She has a younger brother, Hughes Van Ellis, who was a newborn at the time of the massacre and as of 2021 was 100. The house had no electricity. Before moving to Tulsa the family were sharecroppers. In Tulsa the family attended St. Andrew, a Black Baptist church.
