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One of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre dies at 102

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One of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre died on Monday.

Hughes “Uncle Red” Van Ellis was 102, according to a family publicist.

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Van Ellis was 6 months old when his family fled a white mob that killed hundreds of Black people and decimated a thriving Oklahoma community more than a century ago, publicist Mocha Ochoa said in a statement about his death.

Read more on NBC News here.