“Voting is important,” said Fletcher, who is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, voters in her state.
A survivor of the Tulsa massacre casts a ballot at a polling place named after the neighborhood that was destroyed and looted.
The woman was accompanied to the polls by her grandchildren: Ike Howard and Tracey Flemons. Everyone voted at a polling place in Tulsa called “Greenwood” — the name of the African-American neighborhood in Tulsa that was destroyed in the 1921 massacre there.
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Greenwood, referred to as the “Black Wall Road”inhabited by the richest African Americans living in the southern states of the United States. On May 31, 1921, the Greenwood district was attacked by whites – during the attack, more than 1,000 buildings were destroyed and up to 300 people may have died. The district was completely destroyed and looted.
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Lessie Benningfield Randle, one of the survivors of the massacre, said last week that she voted for Harris by mail.