The US Department of Justice has ruled out prosecution in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, denying legal recourse to the last two living survivors.
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 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.
The new Department of Justice account of the 1921 assault on a Black neighborhood is a necessary dose of truth in an era poisoned by disinformation.
Kristen Clarke, the first Black woman chosen to be the nation's top civil rights enforcer, called leaving the DOJ 'a bittersweet moment.'
The Justice Department released an extensive report looking into one of the most destructive racial massacres in U.S. history.
The two last survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, released a joint statement in response to the report the Department of Justice released on the Tulsa Race Massacre.