On Friday, the Department of Justice issued a report on the Tulsa Race Massacre, outlining its finding and evaluation of the massacre undertaken in accordance with the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act.
The US Department of Justice has ruled out prosecution in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, denying legal recourse to the last two living survivors.
The Department of Justice was unable to pursue prosecution of persons involved in the decimation of the once-prosperous Greenwood community of Tulsa, Oklahoma, but now, an official review of the horrific crimes committed in 1921 has recognized the systemic racism at its foundation.
Some law enforcement members participated in arson and murders that occurred during the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report released Friday.
So far this year, the most consequential publisher in America is the United States government. In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, the Justice Department posted online a grim PDF with a title that defies all marketing advice: “Final Report of the Special Counsel Under 28 C.F.R. § 600.8.”
Federal officials said Saturday they cannot prosecute any person or government agency involved in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre — but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other questions to be answered.
The first-ever U.S. Justice Department review of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre finds there is no longer an avenue to bring a criminal case in association with the attack by a white mob on a thriving Black district.
A DOJ report has found the mob that destroyed "Black Wall Street" in Tulsa and murdered hundreds of people was a coordinated and systematic assault.
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 is considered one of the darkest chapters in American history, marked by the systematic annihilation of a Black community in Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The first-ever U.S. Justice Department review of the 1921 Tulsa Race ... report states. Among the findings in the DOJ investigation were federal reports from just days after the massacre ...
Federal officials said Saturday they cannot prosecute any person or government agency involved in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre — but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other questions to be answered.