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Ruth Williams (née Robeson) was the mother of Will Reeves and the great-grandmother of Angela Abar.

Ruth and her family lived in Tulsa in the early 1900s. They were present for the 1921 Tulsa race massacre in which a mob of white residents ambushed prosperous black civilians for the color of their skin.

Though Ruth and her husband Obie managed to get their son Will to safety, they were both killed in an explosion during the massacre.

  • Ruth Williams was portrayed by Alexis Louder.

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