The Justice Department released an extensive report looking into one of the most destructive racial massacres in U.S. history ...
The Justice Department’s conclusion follows an investigation of the 1921 atrocity in Oklahoma in which up to 300 Black ...
A Justice Department review of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre confirmed law enforcement, national guard and officials failed to ...
The Justice Department provided new insight and chilling details about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, describing the two-day raid that killed 300 Black residents and destroyed their businesses as a ...
Now it’s like, the phone is ringing, we have people wanting entire pies. As fast as we make them, they’re already gone.” ...
The deadly 1921 rampage was a coordinated, military-style effort to destroy a prosperous Black neighborhood, a new report ...
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 is considered one of the darkest chapters in American history, marked by the systematic annihilation of a Black community in Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Only the most thoroughgoing account of the massacre mentions the heroic stance of “Peg Leg Taylor,” who single-handedly fought off a dozen white attackers. There was also J.B. Stradford, a hotel owner ...
Applications for the Oklahoma Civil Rights Trail Grant Program are now open.This program is open to tribal, county and ...
"Victor Luckerson, a Black author and historian who ... the local sheriff, the Oklahoma National Guard and then-Tulsa Mayor T.D. Evans, and determined that each played a role in the chaos and ...