Survivors of the 1921 massacre and their descendants contemplate the meaning of reparations in today’s Tulsa, Okla.
Devastation of Greenwood District after Race Riots, Tulsa, Oklahoma in June 1921. Universal Images Group via Getty Images "While it hasn't been easy for us to relive the pain, we are relieved to ...
The two last survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, released a joint statement ...
It’s been 103 years since a Newnan teenager died in the Tulsa race massacre. Over the past three years, droves of people from Oklahoma, Utah, Florida, and Georgia have worked to identify him.
says the massacre was not a "race riot" because it was not the “result of racial feeling, or agitators.” Instead, Weiss blamed Tulsa County Sheriff W.M. McCullough for allegedly inviting Black ...
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." ...
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Dept. of Justice has reported the results of an investigation of the Tulsa Race Massacre, noting that even though the century-old incident was a violation of civil rights ...
Jan. 11 (UPI) --The Justice Department has issued a report on its exhaustive probe of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in which it concludes that while there is no longer any "avenue of prosecution ...
(KFOR) – The United States Department of Justice has released an anticipated and first-ever formal federal review on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre ... and asserted that the riot was not the ...
More than a century ago, Greenwood, a Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was destroyed in a violent spree by a white mob. It was one of the worst episodes of ...