The Justice Department released an extensive report looking into one of the most destructive racial massacres in U.S. history ...
Survivors of the 1921 massacre and their descendants contemplate the meaning of reparations in today’s Tulsa, Okla.
The Justice Department released an extensive report looking into one of the most destructive racial massacres in U.S. history ...
More than 100 years after the massacre destroyed Tulsa's Greenwood community, the Department of Justice says there is no ...
The deadly 1921 rampage was a coordinated, military-style effort to destroy a prosperous Black neighborhood, a new report ...
Only the most thoroughgoing account of the massacre mentions the heroic stance of “Peg Leg Taylor,” who single-handedly fought off a dozen white attackers. There was also J.B. Stradford, a hotel owner ...
The Justice Department’s conclusion follows an investigation of the 1921 atrocity in Oklahoma in which up to 300 Black ...
"Had today’s more robust civil rights laws been in effect in 1921, federal prosecutors could have pursued hate crime charges ...
The DOJ indicated in its new report regarding the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that it was a coordinated, systematic attack.
Of interest were statements from federal agents' reports filed soon after the massacre, including about rumors of an attack that had prompted officials to prepare "for the defense of Tulsa." ...
Moreover, although the 1921 report asserts that the massacre (then called a riot) was not the result ... survivors and descendants of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the Tulsa civil rights community ...