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1. www.sciencenews.org › article › tulsa-1921-raceA Tulsa mass grave may answer questions about the 1921 race ...

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   May 27, 2021 · Archaeology. To find answers about the 1921 race massacre, Tulsa digs up its painful past. A newly discovered mass grave will be excavated this summer. Fires lit by white mobs left many homes and...

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3. time.com › 6050742Inside the Search for Victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre

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   May 27, 2021 · May 27, 2021 10:02 AM EDT. A century after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, during which a white mob torched Black homes and businesses in the Oklahoma city’s Greenwood area, which was also known...

4. www.washingtonpost.com › history › 2024/07/12Scientists identify victim of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in ...

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   Jul 12, 2024 · Scientists have identified a victim of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre whose remains were found in a mass grave in a city-owned cemetery, Tulsa’s mayor announced Friday.

5. www.nytimes.com › interactive › 2020/07/17Nearly a Century After a Tulsa Massacre, the Search for ...

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   Jul 17, 2020 · The white mobs looted scores of businesses, burned over a thousand homes and killed an untold number of residents of the Greenwood district. Estimates of the death toll range from 36 to 300, with...

6. www.nationalgeographic.com › magazine › articleThe Tulsa Race Massacre: The city finally confronts the ...

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   May 26, 2021 · Robert Turner prays near the site of a newly discovered mass grave in Tulsa’s Oaklawn Cemetery, the first found from the 1921 attack by white rioters on Greenwood, a Black neighborhood.

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7. www.cityoftulsa.org › press-room › major-discoveryCity of Tulsa

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   Jul 12, 2024 · An Exhibit at Greenwood Cultural Center named “Gathering Greenwood” is being designed and will be an interactive exhibit about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, survivors, and descendants. It will house a permanent exhibit that will allow community members to explore and research their own family genealogy with an onsite library.

8. www.huffpost.com › entry › greenwood-massacre24 Unmarked Graves Found In Search For Tulsa Race Massacre ...

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   Nov 3, 2022 · Twenty-four unmarked graves have been found in a historic Tulsa, Oklahoma, cemetery amid recently relaunched efforts to find and identify victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, city officials said Wednesday.

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   How many unmarked graves have been found in a Tulsa Cemetery?

   • Twenty-four unmarked graves have been found in a historic Tulsa, Oklahoma, cemetery amid recently relaunched efforts to find and identify victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, city officials said Wednesday.

   24 Unmarked Graves Found In Search For Tulsa Race Massacre Victims

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   Where were the dead buried in Tulsa?

   • Tulsans have tried to find answers and search for the dead before. Rumors have persisted for a century that bodies were buried in mass graves around Tulsa, burned in the city’s incinerator and disposed of in the Arkansas River or down mine shafts outside of town. But no records of mass graves had ever been found.

   A Tulsa mass grave may answer questions about the 1921 race massacre

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   What happened in a Tulsa mass grave?

   • Scientists have identified a victim of the Tulsa massacre whose remains were found in a mass grave in a city-owned cemetery, Tulsa’s mayor announced Friday. Sorry, a summary is not available for this article at this time. Please try again later.

   Scientists identify victim of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in mass grave

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   Where is the oldest graveyard in Tulsa?

   • On Monday, the first test excavation began at a potential site detected by archaeologists on the grounds of Oaklawn Cemetery, the oldest graveyard in Tulsa. A staircase from a demolished home in the overgrown woods on Sunset Hill, just a half-mile from downtown Tulsa. Black Tulsans made a last defensive stand on the hill on the day of the massacre.

   Nearly a Century After a Tulsa Massacre, the Search for Burial Sites

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   Did a Tulsa police officer see a mass grave in 1921?

   • Bob Patty, a former Tulsa police officer, claims to have been shown a photograph from 1921 at the police station nearly 50 years ago depicting a mass grave, with bodies wrapped in tarps and law enforcement officials standing around the site. “The gates of Hell was wide open that day,” he said of the massacre.

   Nearly a Century After a Tulsa Massacre, the Search for Burial Sites

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   Who built a hotel in Greenwood Tulsa in 1921?

   • J.B. Stradford (with his wife, Augusta) built a full-service hotel. The Williamses, the Parrishes, and the Stradfords survived the violent assault in 1921. Their businesses didn’t. By 1921, Greenwood, racially segregated from white Tulsa by Jim Crow laws, was a self-contained world.

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