Tulsa Massacre Graves Investigation Closes Season With 47 Newly Found Unmarked Burials
The city of Tulsa announced on Nov. 5 that the sixth season of fieldwork in the search for graves of victims of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre has ended. This season, investigators found 47 previously undocumented burials at Oaklawn Cemetery, 13 of them outside the cemetery fence and 12 beneath a walkway. Forensic teams X-rayed each set of remains and confirmed two more individuals with gunshot wounds — one buried in a coffin, one in a simple wooden box — bringing the total of gunshot victims found at Oaklawn to 10. Nine individuals exhumed this season met the investigation criteria and will undergo DNA analysis; 11 who did not meet the criteria were reburied in their original graves inside the fence, and remains from the other 18 burials outside the fence will be reburied after forensic analysis. Since the search began, more than 300 previously unknown burial sites have been documented, and one victim has been identified as C.L. Daniel. In the 1921 massacre, white mobs attacked Tulsa's Black Greenwood district; the death toll has never been firmly established, and locating the remains is central to honoring the dead and their families. The city expects a preliminary season summary in the coming months; Mayor Monroe Nichols said two administrations have carried the work across eight years for one purpose: to find the truth and console the families.
(Source: City of Tulsa)
Source: City of Tulsa
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