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Biden announced plans to build black wealth and narrow racial income gap
Announcement comes ahead of his trip to Oklahoma, to mark 100th anniversary of Tulsa Race Massacre
Biden s plan includes ways to increase black home ownership and to help boost small businesses
He will use the power of federal contracts to invest $100 billion over five years into minority-owned businesses by increasing their share of those contracts
Biden will detail his proposal in a speech in Tulsa
He is first president to mark the Tulsa Race Massacre and will meet survivors
reporter: the centennial bringing renewed calls for reparations. at 107 years old, survivor viola fletcher recently testifying before congress. i hear the screams. i have lived through the massacre every day. reporter: on may 31st, 1921, an angry white mob stormed through tulsa s greenwood neighborhood, also known as black wall street. in less than 24 hours, an estimated 300 black americans would be left dead, thousands of homes and businesses destroyed. anneliese bruner s great-grandmother mary e. jones parrish owned a typing school in greenwood. she ran for her life during the attack. 100 years later and no one has ever been held accountable for what happened on those two days. significance of that? it s a terrible legacy, and i think that tulsa has the opportunity to be the crucible for the reckoning. reporter: in 2019, the state required that lessons on the tragedy in tulsa be included in oklahoma history classes.
Hundreds of black men, women and children were killed in 1921 when a white mob descended on the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, then known as Black Wall Street for its affluence.
reparations come. reporter: the centennial bringing renewed calls for reparations. at 107 years old, survivor viola fletcher recently testifying before congress. i hear the screams. i have lived through the massacre every day. reporter: on may 31st, 1921, an angry white mob stormed through tulsa s greenwood neighborhood, also known as black wall street. in less than 24 hours, an estimated 300 black americans would be left dead, thousands of homes and businesses destroyed. anneliese bruner s great en grabbedmother mary e. jones parrish, owned a typing school in greenwood. she ran for her life during the attack and published a book about it in 1922. here we are 100 years later and no one has ever been held accountable for what happened on those two days. the significance of that? it s a terrible legacy, and i