The Commission conducted three and a half years of research, speaking with survivors of the massacre and sifting through hospital and autopsy reports.
There were an undetermined number of deaths, both black and white, with estimates ranging from the official count of 36 to approximately 300.
The business district of Greenwood was totally destroyed and probably accounts for much of the $4 million in claims filed against the city in 1921.
They did not dismiss the possibility of mass graves, and found at least one potential location based on an eyewitness report and a geophysical search.
However, obtaining conclusive evidence required archeological work, which the investigators were not authorized to perform.