Department of Justice Will Review 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it will launch a review of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, more than a century after one of the worst acts of racist violence in American history.

The federal Civil Rights Division’s Cold Case Unit is conducting the review of the massacre, according to ABC News. The violence took place in Tulsa, Okla., on May 31 and June 1, 1921 when a White mob descended on the city’s thriving Greenwood business district, known as “Black Wall Street,” burning and destroying more than 1,000 homes and businesses and killing upwards of 300 Black people.

An official number of killings has never been released because bodies were disposed of in mass graves, many of which went uncovered for nearly a century. After more efforts to search for victims were eventually launched in 2020, investigators found more than 120 previously unknown gravesites and began using DNA and forensic evidence to identify victims, The Associated Press previously reported.

The federal government is able to open the cold case investigation as a result of the 2008 Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, which allows the DOJ and the FBI to investigate and prosecute “criminal civil rights statutes violations that occurred before 1980 and resulted in a death.”


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I am glad to see they are going to do a review. It's about time, honestly.