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The Perryman Cemetery, located at 32nd and Utica, is Tulsa’s oldest private cemetery. The cemetery has approximately fifty people buried and has a small number of unmarked graves. The Perryman’s were instrumental in the foundation of Tulsa during the 19th century.
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.
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...
- A Culture of Silence
- Digging in
- Breaking Ground
- The Original 18
- DNA Insights and Limits
- Greenwood Rising
As the smoke cleared on June 1, 1921, Greenwood’s surviving Black residents were arrested and taken to internment sites. When they were released days later, many found themselves homeless and their neighborhood unrecognizable. No one was prosecuted for crimes committed during the massacre. Months later, Sarah Page told her lawyer she didn’t wish to...
By the spring of 2019, historians began sifting through tips and interviews with more than 300 people. Investigators winnowed down the information from witnesses to the most promising prospects for finding mass graves: Oaklawn Cemetery just east of downtown, Newblock Park and the Canes area just west of downtown along the Arkansas River, and Rollin...
In July 2020, after a slight delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the team began test excavations at Oaklawn. A backhoe removed soil layer by layer, inches at a time, as archaeologists watched carefully for subtle changes in soil color and texture, and for any hint of a burial. Gravedigging involves removing soil to the depth of several feet, then r...
The team then tried to locate the burials that Clyde Eddy saw, with no luck. Finally, the investigators turned their attention to the area of the Black potter’s field and the two marked graves, a site they dubbed the Original 18, for those 18 Black men mentioned in the funeral home records. Based on newspaper accounts and funeral home records, the ...
Putting names to the deceased will be hard, and could take years. Because the death certificates of the Original 18 had scant details and listed most individuals as having died from gunshot wounds, no document has enough unique information to aid identification efforts. DNA would give the team its best chance at an ID, but after a century, any DNA ...
Reckoning with what happened in 1921 means looking at the victims as people, not just death statistics, Odewale says. “We need to talk about how they lived, not just how they died.” Odewale leads an effort to understand the aftermath of the massacre. The goal of this work, which is happening at the same time as the mass graves project, is to search...
Archaeological researchers have uncovered a possible mass grave in Oaklawn Cemetery, Tulsa’s oldest graveyard. It could finally reveal how many people were killed in the infamous 1921 attack...
Sep 15, 2023 · Researchers and burial oversight committee member Brenda Alford, third from left, carry the first set of remains exhumed from the latest dig site in Oaklawn Cemetery to an onsite lab for further examination Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023 in Tulsa, Okla. They are searching for vicims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
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Nov 1, 2022 · CNN — As part of the city’s effort to find unidentified victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, 17 additional adult burials have been uncovered at an excavation site in the Oaklawn...
