fletcher, mr. van alice, and miss randle. this is 45 minutes. [applause] where president biden is giving a speech to markhe 100th anniversary of the tulsa, oklahoma race massacre. >> one i enrolled as an undergraduate at the university of pennsylvania, my grandmother gave me a manuscript written by her great-grandfather. it was a memoir that began with jb's father to buy his own freedom and continued his life as a successful business owner and hotel he gave in tulsa, oklahoma. -- and hotelier in tulsa, oklahoma. the tulsa race massacre that had destroyed our family business and criminalized our patriarch, jb stratford. educated at oberlin college, indianapolis law school, jb had a hotel business in tulsa that would have been worth over $2 million in today's money. his hotel, the 54-room stratford hotel on the historic greenwood avenue, was sacked and burned to the ground during the tulsa race massacre of 1921 along with 30 square blocks of black owned property, causing him to flee to kansas and later chicago to save his own life. he was falsely indicted for inciting the riot by an inflamed white grand ju