Biden: This was not a riot. This was a massacre. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
President Biden said during his speech in Tulsa that there was no proper accounting of the dead from the Tulsa Race Massacre that occurred 100 years ago. The death toll records by local officials said there were 36 people. That s all. Thirty-six people. Based on studies, records, and accounts, the likelihood the likely number is much more in the multiple of hundreds, Biden said.
The President said that an untold number of bodies were dumped into mass graves, adding, the process of exhuming the unmarked graves has started.
Biden marks 100th anniversary of Tulsa massacre and unveil plan to invest $100billion in minority-owned businesses
Updated: 16:26 ET, Jun 1 2021
PRESIDENT Joe Biden is expected to promise $100billion to minority-owned businesses today as he visits Oklahoma to speak at the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
He is the first president to take part in the events commemorating the attack on Black Wall Street, which saw dozens of black people killed and hundreds of homes destroyed when white people rioted and looted through the area on May 31 and June 1, 1921.
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A vigil was held for the hundred of victims on Monday night to mark the beginning of the violence on May 31, 1921Credit: Getty
President Joe Biden on Tuesday slammed efforts to erase the Tulsa Race Massacre from history and, in a passionate speech, made a plea for racial income equality and improved voting rights.
Biden speech commemorating Tulsa race massacre to detail efforts to combat racial inequality Thomas Barrabi
President Biden will detail his administration’s planned initiatives to combat racial injustice on Tuesday during a speech commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre.
Biden will travel to the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa and meet with survivors of the 1921 massacre. At least 300 Black people were killed when a white mob attacked the Greenwood district, known as Black Wall Street for its thriving businesses, in what is considered one of the worst race massacres in the country’s history.
The president will unveil plans to expand federal contracting with disadvantaged small businesses by 50%, according to senior administration officials. The expanded spending will amount to $100 billion over a five-year span, in a move officials said would help with efforts to close the racial wealth gap.