Review and Evaluation: Tulsa Race Massacre

This report documents and reviews horrific crimes that took place more than a century ago, when white law enforcement and residents coordinated an attack on the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The 123-page report describes the events leading up to the massacre and reveals crucial information not discussed in other sources that described the violence.  It concludes that, were present-day civil rights laws on the books at the time, offenders could have been prosecuted and convicted. But because no perpetrators are now alive, and because statutes of limitations on then-existing laws have long-since expired, no legal action is now possible.