Hughes “Uncle Red” Van Ellis, one of the last three known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, died Monday.
Hughes Van Ellis, 102, gathers with family, friends and local and African officials for a citizenship ceremony at the Embassy of Ghana in Washington on Feb. 28. He died in Denver on Monday. Hughes Van Ellis, one of the last three known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, died Monday at a veterans’ facility in Denver. He was 102. The cause of death was cancer.
Hughes, a World War II veteran, broke into tears as he told the subcommittee how he fought for the United States overseas but had not received justice in his own country. Ellis watched recent developments in the case for reparations. Last week, the Oklahoma legislature heard a panel calling for the state to enact recommendations from the 2001 Tulsa Race Riot Commission. The commission, which was charged by the state with finding out what happened during the massacre, recommended reparations for massacre survivors and descendants, but city officials ignored the commission’s recommendations.
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