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 DOJ’s move follows the Oklahoma Supreme Court's June decision to dismiss a reparations case filed by massacre survivors without taking it to trial. The federal review will be conducted by the Civil Rights Division's Cold Case Unit,

More than a century after one of the deadliest racial attacks in U.S. history, survivors and their descendants are witnessing a investigation