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After 100 years remembering, last survivors mark race massacre in Tulsa

By Makini Brice, Reuters Posted on
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Lessie Benningfield Randle, 106, can still remember a house engulfed in flames and the bodies stacked in truckbeds, one hundred years later.

“I was quite a little kid but I remember running and the soldiers were coming in,” Randle said in an interview with Reuters as her hometown of Tulsa prepared to mark one of the darkest chapters in its history.

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After 100 years remembering, last survivors mark race massacre in Tulsa

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