Viola Fletcher. Screenshot/CSPAN Recently, the Oklahoma State Supreme Court denied reparations for Hughes Van Ellis (now deceased), Viola Fletcher (110), and Lessie Benningfield Randle (109). All were children when they witnessed the massacre that took the lives of at least 300 Blacks in 1921 in their hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Photo by Francis Albert Schmidt, Tulsa Historical Society and Museum According to The Library of Congress , "Mobs of white residents attacked, destr