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Where black businesses, entrepreneurs, art, culture thrived. in 18 hours it was destroyed and burned to the ground by a racist mob. historians believe as many as 300 black residents were killed. what do reparations mean to you? >> reparations, the root was to repair, must have financial compensation to those that suffered the massacre. >> reporter: with the eyes of the world trained on tulsa, an attorney is fighting back, suing the city for restitution, calling for the massacre centennial commission to give back to victims some of what's been raised. >> lot of people are starting to understand...

That not happened, had our family not been destroyed. >> repair me as a person, as a citizen. whatever that takes. whatever it looks like. we're talking about going on four generations of tragedy. >> four generations unable to build on the wealth of their ancestors. you think about the 35 blacks here in greenwood, the 12 mile stretch where hundreds of black businesses that churned wealth into the community. after the massacre hundreds deaded. these communities have not been able to build back. >> tremaine, i've been listening to the pain and the voices and the clip you just showed. it made me ...

Measures. both are un-american. you have to be consistent. the republicans right now are anti-democratic in every sense of the word. lower case d. to the extent she's part of it. she's part of the problem. >> as i've mentioned several times in the show, i interviewed vice president kamala harrison friday. we talked a lot about a lot of things. the george floyd justice and policing act. we talked about tulsa. the fact that has not been previously known, she met with two of the survivors of the tulsa race massacre, as she described it. viola "mother" fletcher and 107 years old, and the vice pres...

Week. it's the first time they asked the question. i think the answer is maybe. possibly. when you think about even centering the narratives. having the commemorations and the concerts and the speakers and the services does little to shrink that gap. when you think about here in tulsa, the black folks are twice as likely to be in poverty. twice as likely to be unemployed. across the country, the typical black family has tenth of what the white family has. we know specific injury from 100 years ago and while it's great to tell the story and do our best to recenter the narratives, folks in this ...

And the trauma they inherited instead of wealth. >> and you know, the big stories about tulsa, what happened there a hundred years ago, but, also, what is happening right now in terms of the controversy over the congressmen -- commemorations. have all the plans done more to maybe -- i was going to say bring people together but tear them apart? >> reporter: in so many ways, i think it reveals a different form of violence. right. the community suffered the violence of the massacre. then the violence of jim crow and the destruction to rebuilding. then the violence of urban renewal. putting a high...