Excavation Begins For Possible Mass Grave From 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Tulsa officials began a test excavation to determine if land on in city-owned Oaklawn Cemetery is the site of a mass grave of victims of the race massacre. Most of the victims have never been found.
Nearly a century ago, Tulsa, Okla., was the site of one of the most brutal race massacres in U.S. history. As many as 300 African American residents were slaughtered by white mobs and a section of the city known as Black Wall Street was reduced to ash.
Historians have been trying to determine where most of the victims were buried for decades.
This week, officials began there using ground-penetrating radar, which could indicate the existence of an unmarked burial ground.
