Scientist: Progress in identifying Tulsa massacre victims
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The massacre occurred in 1921, when a white mob descended on the Black section of Tulsa. More than 1,000 homes were burned a thriving business district known as Black Wall Street was decimated.
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The massacre occurred in 1921, when a white mob descended on the Black section of Tulsa. More than 1,000 homes were burned a thriving business district known as Black Wall Street was decimated.
Six sets of remains exhumed in the search yielded DNA showing they have relatives living in America today, though it remains unclear whether the six were victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
The work is part of a years-long effort to get an accurate count of how many people were killed when a white mob decimated the city's prosperous Greenwood enclave, leaving upward of 300 people dead.
A forensic anthropologist believes the recent discovery of 19 surnames possibly connected to human remains in a Tulsa cemetery may help identify victims of the 1921 Race Massacre.
