1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Graves Investigation Wraps Its Season: 47 Unmarked Graves and 2 More Gunshot Victims Found
TULSA, Oklahoma — The City of Tulsa announced on November 5 that the sixth field season of the investigation into graves from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has concluded, with 47 previously unrecorded burials documented this season at Oaklawn Cemetery — 34 in the southern excavation area and 13 in the western area, 12 of those 13 beneath a walking trail outside the cemetery's existing fenceline. The forensic team X-rayed each set of remains and identified two more people with gunshot wounds — one buried in a casket, the other in a plain box — bringing the total number of gunshot victims found at Oaklawn to 10. Nine of those exhumed this season met the investigation's criteria and will be sent for DNA analysis; 11 who did not meet the criteria have been reburied in their original grave shafts, now within the fence, and the remaining 18 western-area burials will be reburied elsewhere in the cemetery after forensic analysis. Since the investigation began, more than 300 previously unknown burials have been documented and one victim, C.L. Daniel, has been identified. In the 1921 massacre, white mobs attacked the Black community of Greenwood; the death toll has never been firmly established, and the search for remains is central to giving families closure. The city expects a preliminary summary report in the coming months. Mayor Monroe Nichols noted the investigation was started under former Mayor G.T. Bynum and that two administrations have carried it forward over eight years to uncover the truth and bring closure to families.
Source: News 9 (KWTV
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Photo: 图：塔尔萨奥克朗公墓石屋。Wikimedia Commons，CC BY 4.0。 / Photo: The stone building at Oaklawn Cemetery, Tulsa. Via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.
