LITTLE ELM â Viola Ford Fletcher sat on a leather couch dressed in her favorite color, yellow. Inside the Little Elm home, the elderly woman greeted what looked like a receiving line of family, friends and loved ones on her 110th birthday.'I am real proud to be at this age,' Fletcher said.The mother of three is heading into Mother's Day weekend with videos of well-wishes from around the world, a small store of flowers and having gathered more than $6,200 for her foundation.
What was known as 'Black Wall Street' was torched down after stories stemming from a white girl and a Black boy on an elevator-inspired rage. At least 300 Black people were killed, and thousands were left without a place to stay.'You don't forgive someone for them,' said Flether's grandson, Ike Howard. 'It takes a lot of energy to hate a situation or to hate an experience.'Howard said his grandmother taught him it takes more muscles to frown than to smile.
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