Dozens of friends and family gathered Friday night at All Souls Unitarian Church to celebrate the 112th birthday of Lessie Benningfield Randle, the last known survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
The night was part celebration, part commemoration for Randle’s century-long fight for justice. In 1921 she witnessed a white mob descend upon Black Wall Street and destroy 35 blocks while killing an unknown number of people. She was just 6 years old.
“We cannot change what happened in 1921, but we can change how we honor those who suffered, those who survived and those who came before us,” Tulsa City Councilwoman Vanessa Hall-Harper said Friday night…