DOJ concludes Greenwood probe, eyes reparations for Tulsa Massacre survivors

TULSA, OKLA (KTUL) — We have new information about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre survivors and descendants. The U.S. Department of Justice spent the past two days on Greenwood as part of the first-ever probe. Investigators for DOJ left Greenwood with more evidence, and documents and first had stories from survivors and first-generation descendants about what happened in 1921. Lead attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons said he hopes the last two known survivors, Viola Ford Fletcher and Lessie Benningfield Randle, see reparations come out of this in their lifetime. “Hope that once the DOJ publishes this report it will serve as a step toward real justice, real respect, real accountability, and real reparations,” Solomon Simmons said. Standing alongside him was a family of survivors, descendants, and Congressman Al Green out of Texas during Thursday’s news conference. Green said the federal government has helped 911 survivors and Holocaust survivors so they can help people in Greenwood. “When the city doesn’t live up to protecting its citizens, when the county does not meet its obligation, and when the state fails to do what it should to secure people then the federal government has to step up,” Green said. Aside from the DOJ probe, Green...