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Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Ford Fletcher has died, aged 111. (AP: Mary Altaffer)

Viola Ford Fletcher, a living witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma has died, aged 111.

As a child in Greenwood — known as the Black Wall Street — she lived in one of the most affluent African American communities in the United States in the 1920s.

But her world changed in 1921, when white attackers killed as many as 300 Black residents and reduced the thriving district to ruins.

Viola Ford Fletcher, a living witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma has died, aged 111.

As a child in Greenwood — known as the Black Wall Street — she lived in one of the most affluent African American communities in the United States in the 1920s.

But her world changed in 1921, when white attackers killed as many as 300 Black residents and reduced the thriving district to ruins.

The violence marked her childhood and shaped the entire course of her life. Here's a look back at her life in her own words.

Viola Fletcher said the massacre shaped her life.  (Reuters: Carlos Barria)