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Putting black wealth creation at the center of an economic development policy. as abby said, i think as president biden arrives in tulsa today one thing that's important for thimm is to not make it look like a photo op so to speak. when i was in tulsa earlier this year for this piece, as abby was hearing from black tulsans, they're cognizant of the fact that it's inv vogue to come to tulsa and talk about black wall street. he's going to be judged by the policies today, not the top line numbers and all the things like that, but also if he can get them implemented here in washington. >> abby, th...

Conversation josh chamberson. 100 days, the president of the united states is coming to promise and offer some help from washington. what is the mood, the spirit, like there on this day? >> reporter: yeah, it is a big deal for president biden to come here to commemorate this massacre, as you'd pointed out it's not something that's been talked about frequently over the last 100 years. it's been largely omitted from the history books. to have a president come down here to mark it is really important, but there's a second piece to it that black residents of tulsa have been talking about for a ver...

Priority in this white house without a doubt. but to josh's point, can you overcome skepticism in the community, "a," that you mean it, and after you leave and the cameras leave, six months from now, ten years from now, you will see the seeds take root. >> reporter: there are two elements of this. some of these proposals are tied to the future of legislation here in washington, it's the bigger story of legislative gridlock. can he get an infrastructure plan passed that includes these funds for infrastructure investment in low-income communities and for transportation investment in low-income c...

It's something that's rarely taught in american school books but as we stand here today there are still three living survivors of this massacre, each of them over 100 years old and biden will be meeting with them today as he tours the greenwood cultural center, which is in a part of the city known as "black wall street" that was burned down 100 years ago. but what you'll also hear biden talking about today is what can be done to rectify the racial wealth gap that has only expanded in that 100-year period, not just because of the massacre that occurred here in tulsa, but also because of decades...

>> right. >> that says history that makes people uncomfortable can't be taught. i can't imagine such a thing. history that makes people uncomfortable can't be taught. you are a child of the south where in 1921 there was still sharecropping across the south. there were still people since the end of slavery ended each year without a dollar to their name. the idea you are sitting in a place that was generating prosperity, generating wealth, creating the opportunity for a great future for african-americans and it was bombed and burnt and yet the governor says can't teach things that make people un...