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Congress in favor of reparations. >> our country may forget this history, but i cannot. im 107 years old and ive never seen justice. i pray one day i will. >> we arent just black and white pictures on a screen. i was there when it happened. im still here. >> i am asking you today to give us some peace. please give me, my family, and my community some justice. thank you. >> as black people in this country, theres a deep sense of togetherness, and in some way or another, each of us have inherited ...

This legacy that has persisted where greenwood, where it was then, is now just a fraction of what it was before. so much of the rest of the city that used to be owned by black families and business owners are now not. that wealth has been transferred to white residents of the city, to the city itself and those are the kinds of inequities that i think people this tulsa say this is not just the past, this is the present and if we dont do something to rectify it could happen again. you know, the tr...

Assaulting a 17-year-old white elevator operator. no actual evidence emerged, but the accusation alone was enough to spark what is believed to be one of the deadliest and most destructive race massacres in american history. >> all hell broke loose, right? it was either you stay in your house and get burned to death because arsonists were going through or you take the chance, you run out on to the street and die from a bullet wound, from a gunshot. >> reporter: nobody knows exactly how many black...

Completed school after the fourth grade, never made a lot of money. the most shes ever done is be a housekeeper. to this day, she has trouble supporting herself financially. shes 107 years old. the centennial commission in tulsa raised $30 million. not a single penny given to the three known survivors. >> ayesha, i want to put up something jelani cobb wrote. these two memorial days point inescapably not only to those who died on battlefields abroad but to the theaters of conflict at home, but ra...

I remember the history of rosewood and the massacre that occurred there. this was a strategy to eat at black people and black businesses. i want the testimony of these two amazing people -- i was riveted. i was struck by their continued pain 107 years with this pain. 100 years. i just think its important that we continue to lift up this part of our history as painful as it is, because we are doomed and have been over the last century repeating some of the same mistakes. >> we will have to leave ...

Idea that these are important parts of american history that need to be done. but i think, as you talk to people in tulsa, as you talk to people around the country, you get the sense and you know there is a sense that there are real consequences from that massacre that people are dealing with today, and thats why viola fletcher at 107 years old was in washington, d.c. for the first time in her life to say we need reparations, we need justice, we need generations to really be compensated for the ...

Greenwood, an area known as black wall street and proceeded to burn, loot and skill until scores were dead and 35 city blocks were destroyed. >> 100 years later tulsa and the entire nation are still very much reckoning with this violent history. one of the survivors of that day, 107-year-old viola fletcher recently spoke to lawmakers about the horrors she witnessed. >> i will never forget the violence of the white mob when we left our home. i still see black men being shot, black bodies lying in...

>> how long would you wait for your justice. >> reporter: lessi, viola floyd fletcher, these are the last three known survivors of the 1921 tulsa race massacre. >> i will never forget the violence of the white mob when we left our home. i am 107 years old and have never seen justice. i pray that one day i will. >> reporter: for decades, massacre victims and their descendants have called for reparations, but now with democrats in power in washington, the issue is being seriously debated and studi...

I apologize for any incensivity." one major western apparel joining the protest say nounsing it was parting ways with the store in light of the offensive content. a rep for stetson wrote stetson condemns anti-semitism and discrimination of any kind. laura, back to you. >> polo, thank you for that. today marks 100 years since a white mob stormed a thriving black commercial district in tulsa, oklahoma burning it to the ground and killing as many as 300 people. the department of homeland security...

Thanks. i want to turn to hannible turner. thank you for joining me. i think our country realized over the last year that the past isnt dead. its not always necessarily even always in the past. two weeks ago, the householding that-- house holding hearings. one witness was 107-year-old viola fletcher. she is the oldest living survivor, just seven years old at the time of the attack. this is part of what she said.