{"id":32960,"date":"2021-08-21T17:03:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T17:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=32960"},"modified":"2021-08-23T17:05:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T17:05:47","slug":"survivors-of-1921-us-race-massacre-accept-ghanaian-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/survivors-of-1921-us-race-massacre-accept-ghanaian-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Survivors of 1921 US race massacre accept Ghanaian citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two American siblings who survived a well documented massacre of Black people in the US city of Tulsa in Oklahoma have rounded up a visit to Ghana by accepting to be citizens of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>107-year-old Viola Fletcher and her brother, 100-year-old Van Ellis are quoted to have said: \u00ab\u00a0We accept it with great joy and we thank the president for this great honour.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>They arrived in Ghana earlier this week as part of a tour of the continent to mark the 100-year anniversary of the 1921 incident popularly referred to as the Tulsa Race Massacre.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/Survivors-of-1921-US-race-massacre-accept-Ghanaian-citizenship-1338073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/Survivors-of-1921-US-race-massacre-accept-Ghanaian-citizenship-1338073<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two American siblings who survived a well documented massacre of Black people in the US city of Tulsa in Oklahoma have rounded up a visit to Ghana by accepting to be citizens of Ghana. 107-year-old Viola Fletcher and her brother, 100-year-old Van Ellis are quoted to have said: \u00ab\u00a0We accept it with great joy and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-ghana-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-676","item-theme-naturalisation-et-le-mariage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32961,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32960\/revisions\/32961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}