Fletcher is releasing a memoir titled "Don't Let Them Bury My Story" about the life she lived in the shadow of the massacre, after a white mob laid waste to the once-thriving Black enclave known as Greenwood.
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“The questions I had then remain to this day,” Fletcher writes in the book. “How could you just give a mob of violent, crazed, racist people a bunch of deadly weapons and allow them — no, encourage them — to go out and kill innocent Black folks and demolish a whole community?”
“As it turns out, we were victims of a lie,” she writes.
The book will be published by Mocha Media Inc. on Tuesday and becomes widely available for purchase on Aug. 15.
Here is the goodreads synopsis of her memoir "Don't Let Them Bury My Story":
A lifetime in the making, DON’T LET THEM BURY MY STORY shares the journey of the oldest survivor and last living witness of the Tulsa Massacre of 1921. In her memoir, Ms. Fletcher, affectionally known as “Mother Fletcher,” takes us through the journey of a terrified seven-year-old girl awakened in the middle of the night and forced to flee her burning neighborhood of Greenwood to the 107-year-old family matriarch testifying before Congress 100 years later to the date seeking justice for the families of the greatest tragedy to take place on American soil.
Source: AP