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May 27, 2021 · On May 30, 1921, Dick Rowland, a 19-year-old Black shoe shiner, walked into an elevator in downtown Tulsa, Okla. What happened next is unclear, but it sparked the Tulsa race massacre, one of...
Jul 17, 2020 · 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...
The City of Tulsa launched the 1921 Graves Investigation to help find answers from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. To do this, the City has convened some of the best experts in America to help locate, identify and connect people today with those who were lost more than 100 years ago.
May 26, 2021 · Oaklawn Cemetery, Tulsa’s oldest existing public burial ground, is just blocks from Greenwood. At the entrance, a map still shows the dividing line between the “white” and “colored ...
Oct 28, 2015 · The Pioneer (Old Batesville) Cemetery in Batesville, established in 1820, is considered to be the oldest cemetery in Arkansas. The cemetery holds about 60 actual graves including one of William Johnson, who was born in 1775 during the Revolutionary War and served as a captain in the War of 1812.
May 31, 2021 · Last October, archaeologists found a mass grave in the Black section of one of the city’s public cemeteries. This week, the National Museum of African American History and Culture has two...
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Sep 30, 2023 · OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The latest search for the remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has ended with 59 graves found and seven sets of remains exhumed, according to Oklahoma state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck.
