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The Black Wall Street Times: 109 year old Tulsa Race Massacre survivor votes Kamala Harris for President
The Black Wall Street Times - Tulsa Race Massacre survivor votes Kamala Harris for President
“All of our children deserve a president who will inspire them to learn from history, not a tyrant who will try to erase it,” Mother Randle said Friday.
by Deon Osborne
November 1, 2024
Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Lessie Benningfield Randle voted absentee for Kamala Harris, with help from her granddaughter Ladonna Penny. (Photo courtesy of Justice for Greenwood Foundation)
GREENWOOD Dist.–At 109 years old, Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Lessie Benningfield Randle voted for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris during early voting in Oklahoma on Friday.
Over a century after surviving a city-sanctioned racial domestic terror attack at just 6 years old in Tulsa’s historic Greenwood District, “Mother” Randle chose Harris in what she described as her potentially last election.
“I don’t know how much longer I have left, but if this is my last ballot, then I’m grateful that it’s for Kamala Harris,” Ms. Benningfield Randle said in a statement shared by her attorney at Justice For Greenwood Foundation. She voted absentee.
“I have five children and more than 20 grand-babies. VP Harris has the better chance of building the nation I want them to inherit.”
Born on November 10, 1914 at a time when women didn’t have the right to vote, Mother Randle survived a massacre, multiple global pandemics and forced displacement. Now, she hopes to witness history by making Harris the first woman elected President. The only other last known living survivor, 110-year-old Mother Viola Ford Fletcher, plans to vote on election day.
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“All of our children deserve a president who will inspire them to learn from history, not a tyrant who will try to erase it,” Mother Randle said Friday.
by Deon Osborne
November 1, 2024
Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Lessie Benningfield Randle voted absentee for Kamala Harris, with help from her granddaughter Ladonna Penny. (Photo courtesy of Justice for Greenwood Foundation)
GREENWOOD Dist.–At 109 years old, Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Lessie Benningfield Randle voted for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris during early voting in Oklahoma on Friday.
Over a century after surviving a city-sanctioned racial domestic terror attack at just 6 years old in Tulsa’s historic Greenwood District, “Mother” Randle chose Harris in what she described as her potentially last election.
“I don’t know how much longer I have left, but if this is my last ballot, then I’m grateful that it’s for Kamala Harris,” Ms. Benningfield Randle said in a statement shared by her attorney at Justice For Greenwood Foundation. She voted absentee.
“I have five children and more than 20 grand-babies. VP Harris has the better chance of building the nation I want them to inherit.”
Born on November 10, 1914 at a time when women didn’t have the right to vote, Mother Randle survived a massacre, multiple global pandemics and forced displacement. Now, she hopes to witness history by making Harris the first woman elected President. The only other last known living survivor, 110-year-old Mother Viola Ford Fletcher, plans to vote on election day.
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“I don’t know how much longer I have left, but if this is my last ballot, then I’m grateful that it’s for Kamala Harris,” Ms. Benningfield Randle said in a statement shared by her attorney at Justice For Greenwood Foundation. She voted absentee.
“I have five children and more than 20 grand-babies. VP Harris has the better chance of building the nation I want them to inherit.”
