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Back when i was growing up, they said the 1921 race riot and then they changed it to massacre. and i wanted people to know my mother was a survivor of that. a lot of people say, oh, we didnt know anything about it. i always knew about it because my mother told me about it. >> tulsa has seen a lot of growth in recent years. some might even say its showing signs of becoming a destination city. >> tulsa is a beautiful little city that wants to be a big city . its just a little country town

>> my dream is to have a replica of what we had in 1921 with all the black businesses, everybody supporting each other. >> we are the youngest business owners on greenwood. i would like to see young people, you know, rebuilding black wall street. >> let there be some type of closure and some type of life back here that were enjoying. we need to reclaim what was ours from the beginning. our people built black wall street by hard work and dedication. we did it one time, we could do it again. green...

>> theres all kinds of good things that you find in south tulsa. youll find computer stores, youll find bookstores, youll find 24-hour pharmacy, youll find health food stores. none of those things can be found in north tulsa. north tulsa is a food desert and thats got to change. >> one of the things that people dont generally know is that the greenwood community actually came back after it was destroyed. >> it was rebuilt because the rural community, rural lands were still owned mostly by black ...

Race riot of 1921. >> i was a videographer for the race riot commission report. i was honored to accompany eddie fay gates, who was the commissioner at the time. her job was to record the testimonies of the riot survivors. >> we have located 51 actual living riot survivors, ages 78 to 104. no research takes the place of eyewitness testimony, and that is why this day is so significant. this is simms. go on and tell her. >> youll never forget that riot. thats something to be always in your memorie...

>> dana: a lot of news to cover on wednesday. christina coleman looks at the life of betsy coleman, the first black african-american woman pilot. >> betsy coleman was the first black american woman pilot. 1919 she worked as a manicurist in chicago when they are brother who served in world war i told her women were flying aircraft in france. she decided she wanted to learn to fly, the stigma of her race and gender made her travel to france. she applied for flight school in france. received her in...

>> steve: im booking you. >> ainsley: please put his office next to mine. kicked brian out of his. >> good luck with that. a lot of women will be very happy. >> ainsley: im playing. >> brian: put them in the out kick. >> steve: thats part of the movie. >> brian: 21 minutes before the top of the hour we will be right back but before we stop we are celebrated in black history month here is christina coleman. ♪ ♪ the double segment of her race and gender said she would have to travel to france ...

But it is just trying to grapple with, and understand the sequencing of events. what video was available, and when? but the sheer brutality of what we witnessed. we know one of the eternities for -- talked about the fact, this is one of the officers fired, described him as a gentle respectful farther, what kind of father looks at someone elses son being beaten like this, right? we saw -- kicking on the ground as he is lying down, and these are more of the questions to be wrestled within the comi...

Times for it but i think probably looking back, what do i think may be like this? i think probably hearing the story of my uncle james, my dad is a geordie, and my uncle james died in a rock fall and darren pitt in 1921, and i was eight when i first heard that story around the breakfast table, the first time i remember hearing it, and i was really scared because i thought this person has gone out to work and they never came home and the children didnt and i thought, well, at least that cant happ...

Working class people who are thrown out there and end up dying at work. they were paid £300. this is my uncle �*s family in 1921, £300 in compensation with three children under ten who did not have their father, and it affected the family for a long time. it was notjust that moment, it affects the family for a long time. injustice is what probably we felt. i for a long time. inustice is what probably we felt.— for a long time. inustice is what probably we felt. i wouldnt know that at the _...

Dying at work and they were paid £300, my uncles family into an —— 1921, and compensation, three children under ten without their father and it affected my dads family for so injustice, i think, and it affected my dads family for so injustice, ithink, is probably what we felt. although i wouldnt know that at the time. ., ., ., time. your dad tom, your mum joan, time. your dad tom, your mum joan. your— time. your dad tom, your mum joan. your mum _ time. your dad tom, your mum joan, your mu...