Nearly a century later, Tulsa is digging for evidence of mass graves in infamous race massacre.
Brenda Alford, whose grandparents survived the massacre, said Monday she was"honored and humbled" to be standing feet way from where workers were seeking to unearth history.
"I know they could have never imagined this day in time when we would be speaking about the race massacre, let alone looking for the remains of those who were lost so tragically during those horrible days," Alford said of her grandparents and their neighbors. "I am honored and humbled to be here, in this day in time, to witness this time in history to stand in their stead as we try to go about remembering them."
White mobs burned and looted the middle-class Black enclave of Greenwood on May 31 and June 1, 1921, reducing 35 city blocks to charred rubble and killing about 300 Black residents of the neighborhood known as Black Wall Street, according to theThe massacre has largely been a footnote in America's troublesome history of race relations.
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