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President tonight announcing new measures aimed at closing the racial wealth gap >> imagine all of those hotels and diners and mom and pop shops that could have been passed down the past 100 years shockingly, percentage of black american home ownership is lower today in america than when the fair housing act was passed more than 50 years ago. thats wrong we are committing to changing that. >> reporter: in the early 1900s, tulsas african-american district was successful and self sufficient until ...

So it means a tremendous amount to bring this kind of national, international spotlight on tulsa, oklahoma, and particularly, the fact that he got to share time with ms. randall, at 106, ms. fletcher at 107, and he who served this country, the fact he spent time with them, three survivors who quite frankly deserve justice and by gods grace are still with us, so it means a lot. >> i was struck by president biden today talking about the economic, long-term ramifications of the destruction of green...

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Descended on greenwood shooting black people indiscriminately and burning thousands of homes and businesses along with churches and schools, and when the massacre ended 48 hours later, hundreds of survivors were rounded up at gunpoint and forced to march to camps where they were held for weeks. survivors recounted seeing bodies dumped into the arkansas river and mass graves. those ancestors are trying out, she says, never forget, remember me. sadly the survivors you saw in the piece have since p...

There have been some important apologies. the mayor issued an apology just yesterday and it was on the front page of the paper today. atonement talks about reparations and how we repair the damage that was done. thats going to require a lot of soul searching and a lot of hard discussions. >> this on issue of reparations, as you well know, the three survivors between the ages of 100 and 107 years old, they and their representatives made the case that $30 million was raised and none of it was shar...

And killed. the destruction lasted until the next dare, june 1st. the devastation much longer. >> the very heart of that community was burned to the ground. thousands were left homeless. much as many as 300 300 black americans were killed. the survivors, we should know between 101 and 107 years old. le lets begin at the white house. can you talk about that meeting that the president is going to have with survivors tonight and descendants of of survivors and the initiatives hes going to announce....

Killed. reflecting on that horror today, the president will meet with three survivors of the massacre, the oldest 107 years old. he is also expected to announce new steps to try to bridge the racial wealth gap in this country. thats where we begin with jeremy diamond. he joins us at the white house. good morning. its so significant that the president is going, having these meetings. can you talk about the action, what the administration actually plans to do in terms of trying to bridge those wea...

As a means of making them whole. they are between 100 and 107. coinciding with the presidents visit, the white house has announced a couple other measures aimed at closing the racial wealth gap, one would be for minorities to be able to gain government contracts. and a couple weeks ago there was a black couple who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to put on the market. they got a home appraise al and believed it had been low balled. the couple believed there was a racial element in that. th...

Star piercing the audience, a bright light coming down on mother fletcher, 107 years old, sergeant ellis, 100 years old and mother randall, 106 years old, three living survivors and their descendents. they had never had the commander in chief, the highest office in this land speak to the brutality and the unbelievable death and murder that occurred in greenwood. im not only in tulsa, but ive worked the ground of what was greenwood. ive seen what the oklahoma state university is there put that la...

>> reporter: the centennial bringing renewed calls for reparations. at 107 years old, survivor viola fletcher recently testifying before congress. >> i hear the screams. i have lived through the massacre every day. >> reporter: on may 31st, 1921, an angry white mob stormed through tulsas greenwood neighborhood, also known as black wall street. in less than 24 hours, an estimated 300 black americans would be left dead, thousands of homes and businesses destroyed. anneliese bruners great-grandmoth...