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.

The first-ever U.S. Justice Department review of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre concluded Friday that while federal prosecution may have been possible a century ago there is no longer an avenue to bring a criminal case more than 100 years after one of the worst racial attacks in U.

The Justice Department’s conclusion follows an investigation of the 1921 atrocity in Oklahoma in which up to 300 Black residents were killed.

The deadly 1921 rampage was a coordinated, military-style effort to destroy a prosperous Black neighborhood, a new report says.

The Department of Justice found in a newly released report that though the Tulsa Race Massacre was a “systematic” and “coordinated” attack that transcended mere mob violence, any legal

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. The report,

A new federal review finds the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre was the result of systematic, racially motivated violence targeting Black residents of the city’s Greenwood District.