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At 101 years old, Hughes “Uncle Red” Van Ellis, one of three remaining survivors

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At 101 years old, Hughes “Uncle Red” Van Ellis, one of three remaining survivors

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At 101 years old, Hughes “Uncle Red” Van Ellis, one of three remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, is determined to live as long as it takes to receive restitution, a century after his once thriving, majority Black, north Tulsa, Okla., community was destroyed by a violent white mob.⁠

“Uncle Red told me with all sincerity and seriousness, he’s gonna live to 130,” Damario Solomon-Simmons, a civil rights attorney for the survivors, told Yahoo News. “They don’t plan to leave this earth until they get justice.”⁠

Read more at the link in our bio.⁠

✍️: Yahoo News⁠
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