Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest known survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, has died aged 111, the city's mayor announced on Monday.
Mrs Fletcher was seven years old in the spring of 1921 when a white mob attacked Greenwood, a thriving black neighbourhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. An estimated 300 residents died in the violence.
She and other survivors spent their later years campaigning for official recognition of the atrocity and seeking reparations. But their lawsuit was dismissed by the state's supreme court.
Mayor Monroe Nichols described Mrs Fletcher's life as "lighting a path forward with purpose". The last known remaining survivor of the massacre is 111- year-old Lessie Benningfield Randle.
The Tulsa Race Massacre which took place between 31 May and 1 June 1921 is regarded as one of the worst episodes of racial violence in US history. It was sparked by an accusation that a black teenager, Dick Rowland, had assaulted a white woman in a lift.
