A decades-long US effort to recover mass burial plots from the 1921 Tulsa race riot has been spurred forward after two sites were discovered in Oklahoma City that may contain unmarked mass graves. 9News
Damage from the Tulsa Race Riot in June 1921.
Bodies were buried by strangers in mass graves while the decedents' families remained detained under martial law, said Scott Ellsworth, a University of Michigan historian who has worked on the recovery of the Tulsa riot graves for decades. The survey found unmarked graves, as well as large, seemingly human-dug areas that are likely mass graves at both The Canes and Oaklawn Cemetery, Scott Hammerstedt, a senior researcher at the University of Oklahoma, said during the public meeting.
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