DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review

The Friday DoJ report, however, acknowledged that the attack by white citizens on Black residents "was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence".

"The Tulsa race massacre stands out as a civil rights crime unique in its magnitude, barbarity, racist hostility and its utter annihilation of a thriving Black community," Kristen Clarke, the assistant attorney general of the DoJ's civil rights division, said in a statement. "In 1921, white Tulsans murdered hundreds of residents of Greenwood, burned their homes and churches, looted their belongings, and locked the survivors in internment camps.".,.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/10/tulsa-race-massacre-report-doj

US justice department announces investigation into Tulsa race massacre

"We honor the legacy of the Tulsa race massacre survivors, Emmett Till, the Act that bears his name, this country and the truth by conducting our own review and evaluation of the massacre," Clarke said, announcing that the review should be finalized by the end of the year. "We thus are examining available documents, witness accounts, scholarly and historical research and other information on the massacre. When we have finished our federal review, we will issue a report analyzing the massacre in light of both modern and then-existing civil rights law."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/01/tulsa-race-massacre-doj-investigation

The Tulsa race massacre affected the ‘economic freedom’ of generations

The fiery loss of businesses and homes at the hands of a white racist mob in 1921 in the Greenwood district, once considered to be the "Black Wall Street" of America, was not only about loss of life but also loss of Black wealth. … 

Generations of Black Oklahomans lost out on homes and businesses that could've been potentially passed on and uplifted those coming behind to a new economic status of prosperity and opportunity…

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/10/tulsa-race-massacre-reparations-lawsuit-oklahoma-supreme-court

Outrage as Republican says 1921 Tulsa massacre not motivated by race | Oklahoma | The Guardian

In a public forum on Thursday, Ryan Walters, Oklahoma's state superintendent of public instruction, said teachers could cover the 1921 massacre, in which white Tulsans murdered an estimated 300 Black people, but teachers should not "say that the skin color determined it". …

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/08/oklahoma-republican-tulsa-race-massacre

‘Let the world know’: elderly survivors of the Tulsa race massacre push for justice

"We were happy then," she says wistfully. "Before this happened, we had children in the neighbourhood to play with. We had schools, churches, hospitals, theatres and anything that people enjoyed. It was a strong community." 

 "This" refers to the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, when a white mob descended on the neighbourhood of Greenwood, home to a business district known as Black Wall Street, killing an estimated 300 people and looting and burning businesses and homes. Thousands were left homeless and living in a hastily constructed internment camp…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/25/tulsa-race-massacre-survivors-congress-justice-reparations

Tulsa Race Massacre reparations lawsuit can proceed, judge rules - The Washington Post

The ruling comes more than 100 years after the massacre killed as many as 300 Black people, injured 800 and left more than 10,000 without homes in one of the worst incidents of racist terror violence in U.S. history...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/05/03/tulsa-race-massacre-lawsuit-proceed/

Tulsa isn’t the only race massacre you were never taught in school. Here are others. - The Washington Post

"Pick a massacre and research it!"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/06/01/tulsa-race-massacres-silence-schools/

Biden issues proclamation on Tulsa race massacre - POLITICO

… In the proclamation, Biden also called on the federal government to "reckon with and acknowledge" how it has "stripp[ed] wealth and opportunity from Black communities." He said his administration was "committed to acknowledging" how federal policy affected Greenwood in particular...
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/31/joe-biden-tulsa-proclamation-491450

Tulsa Race Massacre centennial: Greenwood’s destruction - Washington Post

… "The city police department and the county sheriff's office deputized and armed white Tulsans to murder, loot, and burn the nearly 40 city blocks of the Greenwood District," according to the reparations lawsuit. "The State National Guard participated with this angry white mob in killing and looting and destroying the property of Black residents of Greenwood. The city, sheriff, chamber, and county targeted Black community leaders and victims of the massacre for prosecution as instigators of the massacre — despite knowing who were truly responsible."…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2021/tulsa-race-massacre-centennial-greenwood/

‘Justice looks like telling the story’: the long buried story of the Tulsa race massacre

' In 1921, a white mob destroyed a black neighborhood in one of the country's worst episodes of racial violence. A new film traces the echoes of violence, long whitewashed from textbooks, into the present…

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/may/28/tulsa-race-massacre-documentary-the-fire-and-the-forgotten

Viola Fletcher, 107, survivor of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, wants reparations, justice - The Washington Post

…The massacre began on the evening of May 31, 1921, when a White mob descended on Greenwood, shooting Black people indiscriminately and burning more than 1,200 homes, hundreds of Black-owned businesses, churches, schools and a Black-owned hospital. Some survivors saw airplanes dropping turpentine bombs on houses…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/05/19/viola-fletcher-tulsa-race-massacre-survivor/

The Ground Breaking review: indispensable history of the Tulsa Race Massacre

"I believe that the path of true racial reconciliation runs through millions of American whites, whose hearts would be changed if they only knew our history. To those people I would simply say this: Please read this book."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/15/the-ground-breaking-review-history-tulsa-race-massacre-black-wall-street-1921