DOJ in Greenwood, Collects Evidence, Interviews Survivors, Descendants of Tulsa Race Massacre

DOJ Makes Historic Trip to Greenwood, Collects Evidence, and Interviews Survivors and Descendants in Tulsa Race Massacre Probe

In a historic first, U.S. Department of Justice officials have been deployed to Tulsa’s Greenwood district this week to interview survivors and descendants and gather evidence at the site of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The trip comes shortly after the DOJ opened the first-ever federal probe into the episode of white supremacist terror that left the then-affluent community known as Black Wall Street in ruins and countless Black people dead.

DOJ officials are on the ground with Damario Solomon-Simmons, lead attorney for the two remaining Tulsa Race Massacre survivors, who will share details in a press conference on Thursday, Oct. 17 at 2pm CT/ 3pm ET, joined by U.S. Congressman Al Green (D-TX) and descendants and experts directly involved with the federal probe.

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