We Lost Everything That Day: Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors Recall Century-Old Horrors During Hearing

It's been 100 years since one of the most severe incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre happened when a heavily white mob stormed Greenwood Avenue - known as the "Black Wall Street, leaving hundreds of Black people dead.

Today, the House Judiciary subcommittee heard testimony from survivors to consider possible legal remedies to compensate massacre survivors and their descendants.

Viola Fletcher, one of three eyewitnesses, recounted the sights of the dead, black bodies lying in the streets.

Bill H.R. 40 is awaiting a full House vote and would establish a commission to study reparation proposals.

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