دانلود رمان انگلیسی “نگذارید داستانم را دفن کنند” – پیرترین بازمانده زنده قتل عام نژادی تولسا از زبان خودش

On May 19, 2021, Hughes Van Ellis, also known as Uncle Redd, testi!ed alongside his older sister Viola Ford Fletcher and their fellow survivor, Mother Randle, before the US Congressional Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. At 101 years old, Redd is one of the last remaining survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, an act of terror that destroyed Greenwood, Oklahoma, and many Black lives. Despite the hardships he faced, including racial segregation and discrimination, Redd remains a !rm believer in the ideals of America and the promise of “liberty and justice for all.” Chair Cohen, Ranking Member Johnson, and members of the subcommittee, my name is Hughes Van Ellis, and I am 100 years old. I am a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Because of the massacre, my family was driven out of our home. We were left with nothing. We were made refugees in our own country. My childhood was hard, and we didn’t have much. We worried what little we had would be stolen from us, just like it was stolen in Tulsa. You may have been taught that when something is stolen from you, you can go to the courts to be made whole; you can go to the courts to get justice. This wasn’t the case for us. The courts in Oklahoma wouldn’t hear us. The Federal courts said we were too late. We were made to feel that our struggles were unworthy of justice; that we were less valued than Whites; that we weren’t fully Americans. We were shown that in the United States not all men were equal under the law. We were shown that, when Black voices called out for justice, no one cared. We still had faith things would get better. We still believed in the promise of America and in the cause of freedom. I did my duty in World War II. I served in combat in the Far East with the 234th AAA Gun Battalion. We were an all-Black battalion. I fought for freedom abroad, even though it was ripped away from me at home, even after my home and my community were destroyed. It is because I believed, in the end, America would get it right.