Excavation Crews Begin Second Search For Tulsa Race Massacre Victims
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This week, search crews began digging in a second part of Oaklawn Cemetery.
Searching for victims of the Tulsa race massacre, a movement decades in the making and finally coming to a head in 2020.
"Have lived your live wondering when this narrative would have physical evidence … we have finally found a mass grave," said Forensic Anthropologist Dr. Phoebe Stubblefield.
From May 31 to June 1, 1921, the greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was looted and burned to the ground. Hundreds of black people were killed; thousands more were rounded up and detained.
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