Episode 5- The 111 Year Witness The Mother Viola Ford Fletcher Story: The Night The World Ended

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Episode 5- The 111 Year Witness The Mother Viola Ford Fletcher Story: The Night The World Ended

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"I still smell smoke. I still see fire." In the premiere episode of our 3-part special series, host Anthony Smith takes you back to May 1921. Before it was a crime scene, the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was "Black Wall Street"—a beacon of economic independence and Black excellence.
Through the eyes of a seven-year-old girl named Viola Ford Fletcher, we explore the vibrant life of Greenwood and the horrific 24 hours that turned a Promised Land into an inferno. How did a community this strong fall so fast, and what did young Viola see from the back of that fleeing buggy?
In this episode:
The "Economics of Excellence": Why Greenwood thrived.
The Elevator Incident: Separating fact from the 1921 friction.
The Invasion: Private planes, firebombs, and the 111-year trauma

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