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      • June 2021 – City conducts first full excavation at Oaklawn Cemetery. Excavation work focused on the Section 20 area of Oaklawn Cemetery where 18 known 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims were buried per newspaper reports. Fieldwork concluded in late June, which yielded 35 burials, 34 of whom did not have grave markers.
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  2. Jun 8, 2021 · There are now 27 graves that have been uncovered at an excavation site for the remains of those killed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre at Oaklawn Cemetery. That is 15 new burials since the 12...

  3. www.cityoftulsa.org › press-room › city-continuesCity of Tulsa

    Sep 3, 2023 · Excavation work focused on the Section 20 area of Oaklawn Cemetery where 18 known 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims were buried per newspaper reports. Fieldwork concluded in late June, which yielded 35 burials, 34 of whom did not have grave markers.

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    • 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...

  4. In early March, the City of Tulsa with the Public Oversight Committee, agreed to move forward with a test excavation in the sexton area in Oaklawn Cemetery, where the initial geophysical investigation identified a large anomaly consistent with a mass grave.

  5. Sep 29, 2023 · Tulsa’s third excavation at Oaklawn Cemetery for 1921 Race Massacre victims has wrapped up. State archeologist Dr. Kary Stackelbeck and forensic anthropologist Dr. Phoebe Stubblefield updated the media on Friday detailing what their teams have found.

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  6. May 27, 2021 · Forensic anthropologist Phoebe Stubblefield carries a tray of items found at Oaklawn Cemetery during a test excavation in the search for possible mass graves from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre...

  7. www.cityoftulsa.org › press-room › 1921-gravesCity of Tulsa

    Oct 19, 2022 · Following the City’s July 2020 test excavation and the City’s October 2020 discovery of multiple coffins in the Sexton area of Oaklawn Cemetery, the City and its partners conducted a formal excavation in summer 2021, which resulted in 19 exhumations of human remains.

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