DOJ Calls Tulsa Race Massacre 'A Coordinated, Military-Style Attack' More Than 100 Years After Federal Report Blamed It on Black Men

TOPSHOT - People look at the 1921 Black Wall Street Memorial on the 100 year anniversary of the Greenwood massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on May 31, 2021. (Credit: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has formally recognized the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre as "a coordinated, military-style attack" on the thriving Black community of Greenwood, marking its first comprehensive acknowledgment of the event.

On May 31 and June 1, 1921, the prosperous Greenwood District of Tulsa, known as Black Wall Street, was attacked by a white mob incited by racial hostility.