
Three survivors of Tulsa Race Massacre receive $1 million donation
CNN
As the last living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre continue their fight for reparations, a New York philanthropist gifted them $1 million hoping it begins to account for the wrongs they have faced.
Ed Mitzen, co-founder of the New York-based nonprofit Business for Good, presented the donation to Viola Fletcher, 108, Lessie Benningfield Randle, 107, and Hughes Van Ellis, 101, at the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa on Wednesday.
"We made this donation directly to the family so that we could help make their lives a little bit easier. And also to tell them that people do care and that their struggle matters," Mitzen, 54, told CNN.
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