According to the Justice for Greenwood Foundation, two survivors of the 1921 massacre of black people in the US city of Tulsa have been given Ghanaian citizenship.
Hughes Van Ellis, 102, and Viola Ford Fletcher, 108, are the oldest African Americans to be granted Ghanaian citizenship.
They are two of the three surviving victims of the massacre, which may have resulted in up to 300 deaths of African Americans.
A mob of white people murdered about 300 Black residents of the prosperous Greenwood town in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which was formerly known as “Black Wall Street,” and destroyed their homes and businesses.
In August 2021, as part of a week-long tour of Africa to commemorate the killings known as the Tulsa Race Massacre’s 100th anniversary, Viola Fletcher, also known as Mother Fletcher, and her brother Van Ellis, also known as “Uncle Red,” paid a visit to Ghana.
