‘It Is About Time’: DOJ’s Civil Rights Review Of Tulsa Race Massacre Is Called Long Overdue
The aftermath of the Tulsa Race Massacre, during which mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 1921. | Source: Bettmann / Getty A federal civil rights review of one of the worst instances of violence motivated by anti-Black racism in U.S. history is being greeted by cautious optimism more than 100 years after the “act of racial terrorism” took place. […]