By Raja Razek and Elizabeth Wolfe, 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 Cemetery, the Oklahoma state archeologist said Monday.
Tulsa officials on Monday announced the discovery of 17 additional adult graves at an excavation site, part of the city’s effort to find unidentified victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
The search for remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has turned up 21 additional coffins in unmarked graves in the city's Oaklawn Cemetery,
A search for remains from the Tulsa Race Massacre that occurred in 1921 has led to the finding of 21 additional graves. The graves were found in the Oaklawn Cemetery.
The four discovered Tuesday bring to 21 the number of burials uncovered in the former "Black potters' field" near the southwest corner of the cemetery in the past week.
Historians say up to 300 Black people were killed in the 1921 attack and the days that followed. Nearly all are believed to have been buried in mass graves approved by white authorities of the time.
