A 1936 letter from an attorney for C.L. Daniel’s mother seeking veteran’s benefits led investigators to eventually identify him.
In this image provided by the City of Tulsa, Crews work on an excavation at Oaklawn Cemetery searching for victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022, in Tulsa, Okla. Officials say the search for remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has turned up 21 additional graves in the city’s Oaklawn Cemetery. A World War I veteran is the first person identified from graves filled with more than a hundred victims of theThe remains of C.L.
More than 120 graves were found during the searches that began in 2020, with forensic analysis and DNA collected from about 30 sets of remains.Daniel’s remains are the first from those graves to be linked directly to the massacre, in which white people killed as many as many as 300 Black people.
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