Viola “Mother” Fletcher and Hughes “Uncle Red” Van Ellis, sibling survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, and their grandchildren were welcomed into Ghana on Saturday to kick off their week-long visit to the African country.
According to Paris-based France 24, the trip is part of a government campaign to give African descendents an opportunity to come “back home.” Fletcher, 107, and Van Ellis, 100, arrived in Accra, Ghana’s capitol, to a crowd of onlookers and government officials waiting to receive them.
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France 24 reports:
“I had everything a child could need… But within a few horrible hours, all of that was gone,” said Fletcher. ”Now after all these years, I’m so happy to be fulfilling a lifelong dream of going to Africa and I am so pleased that [it] is to beautiful Ghana.”
The Tulsa World reports that the trip all-expense-paid and is co-sponsored by Virginia-based social media platform Our Black Truth and the Diaspora Africa Forum, based in Ghana. Democratic state Rep. Regina Goodwin of Tulsa told the World that the trip stemmed from a conversation that Fletcher had with Our Black Truth co-founders Michael and Eric Thompson earlier this year.
Source: 2 Survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre Arrive in Ghana for Week-Long ‘Dream’ Trip to Africa
