Mocha Media Inc is honored to announce the publication of DON’T LET THEM BURY MY STORY, The Oldest Residing Survivor of the Tulsa Race Bloodbath In Her Personal Phrases (Hardcover; On Sale: Could 30, 2023; $29.99; ISBN: 9781737168409) by Viola Ford Fletcher together with her grandson Ike Howard on the 102nd Anniversary of the occasion that prompted the only worst incident of racial violence within the historical past of america.
A lifetime within the making, DON’T LET THEM BURY MY STORY shares the journey of the oldest survivor and final dwelling witness of the Tulsa Bloodbath of 1921. In her memoir, Ms. Fletcher, affectionally generally known as “Mom Fletcher,” takes us by the journey of a terrified seven-year-old woman woke up in the midst of the night time and compelled to flee her burning neighborhood of Greenwood to the 107-year-old household matriarch testifying earlier than Congress 100 years later to the date in search of justice for the households of the best tragedy to happen on American soil.
“I’ll always remember the violence of the white mob after we left our dwelling. I nonetheless see Black males being shot, Black our bodies mendacity on the street. I nonetheless scent smoke and see hearth. I nonetheless see Black companies being burned. I nonetheless hear airplanes flying overhead. I hear the screams,” Fletcher advised Congress. “I’ve lived by the bloodbath day by day. Our nation might overlook this historical past, however I can not.”
Regardless of 1921 Tulsa being a extremely segregated metropolis, the ten,000 Black residents of its Greenwood neighborhood created a thriving enterprise district generally known as “Black Wall Road.” However sadly, what ought to have been a possibility to create generational wealth, turned a nightmare that killed a whole bunch of Black Tulsans. The hundreds of survivors who had simply misplaced family members and hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in property had been then compelled into internment camps.
With nobody ever held accountable for the horror they endured, these traumatized Americans had to determine survive in a rustic that attacked them with navy drive and threatened their lives in the event that they ever tried to inform their tales. For 102 years, the remaining survivors patiently waited to be acknowledged, heard, and restored.
“My grandmother was afraid to inform her tales for a few years in concern of retaliation,” says her grandson Ike Howard, co-writer and President of the Viola Ford Fletcher Basis. Lastly, the retired navy veteran prompt that maybe God had blessed her with longevity so she may inform everybody what occurred in Tulsa. “Realizing I used to be right here to guard her, she was inspired to overcome her concern. She checked out me and mentioned, “Alright then, go inform my rattling story.”
DON’T LET THEM BURY MY STORY is ready to publish on Could 30, 2023, the 102nd Anniversary of the Tulsa Race Bloodbath, beneath Mocha Media, A Black-woman-owned publishing firm that produces unique, curated, and user-generated content material digital and conventional codecs. Upon publication Ms. Fletcher can be 109 years previous, making her the oldest centurion to ever write a e-book.
“What an honor it’s to make historical past on Worldwide Ladies’s Day with Mom Fletcher, who’s utilizing the ability of the pen to maintain her survival story alive. It’s Literary Activism at its best,” says Margo Ochoa, CEO of Mocha Media Inc. “As a result of our publishing mannequin not solely offers a platform for marginalized writers but it surely additionally permits Ms. Fletcher to obtain quick royalties, this we in our personal means can do our half to help within the financial restoration of Ms. Fletcher and her household.”
Ms. Fletcher and Ike Howard alongside together with her “Child Brother” Van Ellis (102) who wrote the ahead to the e-book will embark on tour in the course of the spring and summer season of 2023.
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