Lawsuit seeking reparations for Tulsa Race Massacre is dismissed
NBCAPR 20 2023
The US Justice Department's (DOJ) Civil Rights Division announced Monday that it would, for the first time, investigate the race riot that took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, between May 31 and June 1, 1921.
The probe will utilize the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, which allows the federal government to probe civil rights crimes that occurred before 1979.
The Tulsa riots, also known as the Tusla Massacre, was an attack by a white mob against a Black neighborhood called the Greenwood District — an economically thriving area nicknamed "Black Wall Street" — following allegations that a Black teenager had attacked a white woman.
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