#Hughes Van Ellis | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

thechanelmuse · 1 year ago

Text

Hughes "Uncle Redd" Van Ellis (1921-2023) ❤️🕊

Mr. Hughes was a WWll combat veteran and one of the last three survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, in which jealous European-American mobs went into the thriving, economic, 35-block area of the Greenwood district created by Black Americans (survivors and descendants of American chattel slavery) in Tulsa, Oklahoma known as “Black Wall Street,” and looted, burned & bombed it to the ground and murdered Black Americans through government sanction.

Justice for the Tulsa Race Massacre survivors has been intentionally slow-moving for over a century now to insure injustice is given to those who survived it. Even to the point where people try to bury the history or give a revisionist lie of it being a race riot. But just as reparations for US chattel slavery (perpetual ownership passed on through birth as someone's property and form of capital through labor and body), the debt is still owed from the US government.

The stolen generational wealth from forced labor, the stolen wealth from the Freedmen's bank ($93 million today) amongst other things, the stolen land to this day, and the continued remnants of slavery (including, Jim Crow, ethnocide and genocide) that are government sanctioned in our homeland our ancestors built from scratch. The debt will always be owed until it's paid. A debt doesn't die.

Reparations are currently happening at a slow pace across a number of states and municipality levels as of now, but at the same time we have to fight against Pan-African and obstructionist Democrats to ensure it's lineage-based for Black Americans only, direct cash payments to remove any hiccups, and protective policies our ancestors should've always had and we should've inherited.

When you don't have protective policies on the books for the largest ethnic group who descends from America and strip/impede on their potential accumulation of wealth and assets to pass down to their families, what do their descendants inherit?👂🏽

Some survivors and the descendants of Black Wall Street tried to rebuild their district, but when you're stripped of your wealth and "urban renewal" starts intruding I-244 called "Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Expressway" 😒 into your land, you can imagine the results. Mr. Hughes inherited displacement and poverty, passed down poverty to his family, and died in poverty. Mama Viola Fletcher, 109 (who is the sister of Mr. Hughes pictured above) and Mama Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108, are the last two survivors and still in the fight. They, too, live in poverty.

The passing of Mr. Hughes and our Black American ancestors will never go in vain as we continue to stand 10 toes down for them and us and see it through.

Rest easy, Uncle Redd (Jan. 11, 1921 - Oct. 9, 2023) ❤️🕊

This was his testimony before Congress in 2021:

youtube

#hughes van ellis #tulsa race massacre #tulsa survivors #black wall street #reparations #american history #black american history

25 notes · View notes

ausetkmt · 1 year ago

Text

FREEDOM FIGHTER FROM TULSA, GONE WITHOUT HIS REPARATIONS

The 102 year old Tulsa massacre survivor Hughes Van Ellis dies without #reparations and his history banned. Nevertheless, this history of our forbears demonstrates the story is NOT over. Sir, rest in power.

I was just informed that one of the last living survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre has died. Hughes Van Ellis aka “Uncle Red” was 102 years old. This is him on the right. His grand-nephew texted me, “He died waiting on justice.”

#REPARATIONS #TULSA #UNCLE RED #Hughes Van Ellis #He died waiting on justice #FREEDMEN #Tulsa Survivors

20 notes · View notes

gwydionmisha · 1 year ago

Text

#Hughes Van Ellis #Tulsa Race Massacre #In Memorium

3 notes · View notes

filosofablogger · 1 year ago

Text

... And Then There Were Only Two

I don’t know how I missed this story nearly two weeks ago, but it flew onto my radar this morning and I have to take a few moments to talk about a man named Hughes Van Ellis who died on Monday, October 9th. The man was one of just three remaining survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, which I have written about in years past. According to the Jon S. Randall Peace Page … He died a few days ago,…

View On WordPress

#Hughes Van Ellis #Lessie Benningfield Randle #Lessons of History #reparations #Tulsa Race Massacre #Viola Fletcher #whitewashing history

0 notes

uvmagazine · 1 year ago

Text

Hughes Van Ellis, One of the Last Known Tulsa Massacre Survivors, Dies at 102

Hughes Van Ellis, one of the last three known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has passed away.

Death details

Ellis died in Denver, Colorado, his family said in a statement. He was 102.

Hughes Van Ellis was one of the last three known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Ellis was an infant when he and his older sister, Viola Fletcher, fled Tulsa’s Greenwood District with their…

Photo : Justice for Greenwood

View On WordPress

#deaths #Hughes Van Ellis #Oklahoma #Tulsa #Tulsa Massacre #Tulsa race massacre

0 notes

delta7of96 · 1 year ago

Text

Tulsa Race Massacre Survivor Hughes Van Ellis Dead At 102 | Chicago Defender

Rest In Peace and Power, Dear and Beloved Great Uncle Hughes Van Ellis... Your sacrifice, suffering, & survival taught, protected, & nurtured the Culture. Fly free, fly high, forever.

#black excellence #black power #chicago defender #black history #tulsa race massacre #hughes van ellis #tulsa race massacre survivors #rip

1 note · View note

voidingintotheshout · 1 year ago

Text

#Hughes van Ellis #tulsa race massacre #black wall street #greenwood #black history

0 notes

couldtheyescortelliewilliams · 3 months ago

Text

Do you want to submit a potential protector for Ellie? Click here if you do!

7 notes · View notes

screen1ne · 2 years ago

Text

Phantom Of The Opera extends booking to March 2024

The Phantom Of The opera London extends booking to March 2024. Get all the details and new Production images here #PhantomLondon @PhantomOpera @lwtheatres @EarlCarpenter @JRobyns @HollyAnneHull @MattBlaker

Phantom Of The Opera BOOKING EXTENDED UNTIL SATURDAY 2 MARCH 2024 FOR THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA AT HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at Her Majesty’s Theatre announces today that booking is now extended until Saturday 2 March 2024. With new production images also released. THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA currently stars Earl Carpenter as The Phantom alongside Holly-Anne Hull as Christine…

View On WordPress

2 notes · View notes

supremacyproject · 7 months ago

Photo

On this day 103 years ago “a prosperous Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla., perished at the hands of a violent white mob.

The mob indiscriminately shot black people in the streets. Members of the mob ransacked homes and stole money and jewelry. They set fires, ‘house by house, block by block,’ according to the commission report.

Terror came from the sky, too. White pilots flew airplanes that dropped dynamite over the neighborhood, the report stated, making the Tulsa aerial attack what historians call among the first of an American city.

The numbers presented a staggering portrait of loss: 35 blocks burned to the ground; as many as 300 dead; hundreds injured; 8,000 to 10,000 left homeless; more than 1,70 homes burned or looted; and eventually, 6,000 detained in internment camps.” Via The New York Times circa 2021.

The losses recounted represent black victims. Over time the event, initially called the Tulsa Race Riot has been accurately renamed the Tulsa Race Massacre. A riot, by definition, is a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets. A massacre is the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.

More than one hundred years after this act of terrorism, the last three survivors continue fighting to have their case for reparations heard by the Oklahoma Supreme Court. In October of 2023, one of them, Hughes Van “Uncle Redd” Ellis, Sr., passed away.

#whoprotectsmefromyou #never forget

256 notes · View notes

ptseti · 6 months ago

Text

TOP COURT RULES NO REPARATIONS FOR TULSA SURVIVORS

You don’t deserve reparations just because you survived a racist atrocity, even if it was facilitated by the authorities - that’s the message of Oklahoma’s top court.

On 12th June, it ruled against three people - all in their hundreds - who lived to tell the tale of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

Viola Ford Fletcher (109), Lessie Benningfield Randle (110) and now-deceased Hughes Van Ellis (102) filed for compensation in 2020, but had their case thrown out by a lower court, which argued that “simply being connected to a historical event” confers no right to reparations.

And Oklahoma’s Supreme Court agrees - agrees that White-supremacist mobs rampaging with police help though your neighbourhood, killing your friends and neighbours, destroying their property and businesses and leaving some 10,000 of you homeless, is not a good reason to compensate the trauma you went through as a child.

Has America really moved forward in the last 103 years?

Reparations #Survivors #Racism #Atrocities #Tulsa #TulsaOklahoma #Destruction #TulsaMassacre #Trauma

12 notes · View notes

historicity-was-already-taken · 1 year ago

Text

Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108; Viola Fletcher, 109; and Hughes Van Ellis, 102 are HEROES. No group has ever won justice from their oppressors without demanding it, loudly and consistently, and these three aren't done fighting.

more coverage

and more

and some background, for those of you unfamiliar with this event

ETA: Justice for Greenwood Foundation

#black history #white supremacy #tulsa massacre

89 notes · View notes

nando161mando · 6 months ago

Text

Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses lawsuit of last Tulsa Race Massacre survivors seeking reparations

The suit was an attempt to force the city of Tulsa and others to make recompense for the destruction of the once-thriving Black district by a white mob. In 1921 — on May 31 and June 1 — the white mob, including some people hastily deputized by authorities, looted and burned the district, which was referred to as Black Wall Street.

As many as 300 Black Tulsans were killed, and thousands of survivors were forced for a time into internment camps overseen by the National Guard. Burned bricks and a fragment of a church basement are about all that survive today of the more than 30-block historically Black district.

The two survivors of the attack, Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, who are both now over 100 years old, sued in 2020 with the hope of seeing what their attorney called “justice in their lifetime.” A third plaintiff, Hughes Van Ellis, died last year at age 102.

...

The city and insurance companies never compensated victims for their losses, and the massacre ultimately resulted in racial and economic disparities that still exist today, the lawsuit argued. It sought a detailed accounting of the property and wealth lost or stolen in the massacre, the construction of a hospital in north Tulsa and the creation of a victims compensation fund, among other things.

9 notes · View notes

willthewise10 · 3 months ago

Text

get to know me :)

basic stuff (THIS IS A MAINLY STRANGER THINGS/BYLER BLOG)

name: Elli or ellison MBTI: INFP PRONOUNS: she/her other blogs: frankswildyears my NON-byler/music acct: frick my baka life Interests: stranger things, AOT, music, anime, DND, arcane. more specific interests: MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN>>>>, Mikey Shoes or Micheal Shuman,The outsiders, Daron Malakian, fnaf lore, Troy van Leeuwen, Lang Arts or English, JD Salinger, Serj Tankian, Joey Jordison, Eren Yeager, Byler, big time, down by the law, JAYVIK, arcane, caitvi. Hobbies: playing instruments, drawing, reading. spotify:https://open.spotify.com/user/aaswqp5cxatti8jlssyp0ctpk?si=7ca4a45a2ce34ae5

fav bands/artists:TOOL, qotsa, soad, A Perfect Circle, slipknot, Tom Waits, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Kate Bush,ratm, viagra boys and more :). Fav movies: As You Are,(UNDERRATED MOVIE FR, The Outsiders,Dinner in America, Whiplash, Blair Witch Project, Deadpool, and A Silent Voice.

My favourite actors are Tom Waits, Ethan Hawke, Winona Ryder!!, Helena Bonham Carter, Miles Teller, and Hugh Jackman.

2 notes · View notes

uvmagazine · 1 year ago

Text

An Oklahoma judge has dismissed the reparations lawsuit filed by the last three known survivors of the Tulsa race massacre on Friday, court records show.

The three had sued the City of Tulsa, other groups, and officials over the opportunities taken from them when the city’s Greenwood neighborhood was burned to the ground in 1921.

Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108, Viola Fletcher, 109, and her brother, Hughes Van Ellis, 102, were among the plaintiffs.

The plaintiffs maintaned that the damage inflicted during the massacre was a “public nuisance” from the start and were seeking relief from that nuisance as well as to “recover for unjust enrichment” others have gained from the “exploitation of the massacre.

The family attorneys are expected to address the possibility of an appeal.