Scientists have identified a victim of the Tulsa massacre whose remains were found in a mass grave in a city-owned cemetery, Tulsa’s mayor announced Friday.
Smoke billows over the city during the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst acts of violence against Black people in U.S. history. Scientists have identified a victim of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre whose remains were found in a mass grave in a city-owned cemetery, Tulsa’s mayor announced Friday.
The identification of the remains comes four years after scientists began an excavation in Tulsa in search of mass graves that may be connected to the massacre, one of the worst incidents of racist violence in U.S. history.
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