Still, Ausman and other descendants view the review of the massacre as a chance for Tulsa to become the model for similar reports in America. Florida, Georgia, Arkansas and at least 27 other state legislatures are making efforts to erase literature and teachings about the plight of Black Americans in the country’s history.

The federal review, launched under the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, is expected to be finalized by the end of the year.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened its first-ever probe into one of the deadliest race massacres in the nation's history more than a century later. The big picture: A commission, historians,