Tulsa searches for remains of victims of 1921 'Black Wall Street' race massacre

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Tulsa searches for remains of victims of 1921 'Black Wall Street' race massacre
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Tulsa officials announced plans to dig for mass graves that may have been used to dispose of as many as 300 victims of the city's race massacre nearly 100 years ago.

Researchers believe they have found the site of a mass grave from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.Tulsa officials announced plans this week to dig for mass graves that may have been used to dispose of African American victims of the city's race massacre nearly 100 years ago.

The plan was announced during the city’s Mass Graves Investigation Public Oversight Committee meeting on Monday as a part of an ongoing search for victims.Photograph of damage from the Tulsa Race Riot, Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 1921.

A man with a camera looks at the skeletons of iron beds above the ashes of a burned-out block after the Tulsa Race Riot, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921.

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