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DOJ Launches First Federal Probe of Tulsa Race Riot

Above: People searching through rubble after the Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 1921. Image copyright: Oklahoma Historical Society/Contributor/Archive Photos via Getty Images

The Facts

  • The US Justice Department's (DOJ) Civil Rights Division announced Monday that the Justice Department (DOJ) will, for the first time, investigate the race riots that took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, between May 31 and June 1, 1921.

  • Clarke is utilizing the 2007 Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, which allows the federal government to probe civil rights crimes that occurred before 1978.

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