Justice Department Releases Landmark Report on Tulsa Race Massacre
The DOJ's report reveals the systematic violence of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and the challenges to achieving justice and reparations.
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The DOJ's recently released report on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre confirms the event as a coordinated attack on the Black community of Greenwood, revealing systematic violence and the roles of local law enforcement. Despite detailing the massacre's brutality and its historical significance, the report highlights the absence of living perpetrators and the expiration of statutes of limitations, hindering legal recourse. Survivors Viola Fletcher and Lessie Benningfield Randle, now over 100 years old, continue to seek justice, but face legal obstacles. This report aims to document the events and lay groundwork for future discussions on reparations.
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The Department of Justice (DoJ) report acknowledges the systematic and coordinated nature of the Tulsa race massacre, contrasting with a previous 1921 report that blamed Black men for the violence.
The report cites the complicity of local law enforcement and city officials in the massacre, presenting it as a crime against civil rights rather than mere mob violence.
The findings call for an official acknowledgment and remembrance of the events, emphasizing accountability for government inaction, despite no living perpetrators to prosecute.
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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.
DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review
The Guardian
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Now, the perpetrators are long dead, statutes of limitations for all civil rights charges expired decades ago, and there are no viable avenues for further investigation.
Federal probe of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre says 'no avenue' for criminal case in connection to attack
Associated Press
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This report lays bare new information and shows that the massacre was the result not of uncontrolled mob violence, but of a coordinated, military-style attack on Greenwood.
Justice Department finds Tulsa Race Massacre was ‘systemic’ and ‘coordinated’
The Hill
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