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February 6, 2020

Search Underway for Possible Mass Grave of African Americans Killed in 1921 Tulsa Massacre
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The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is slated to excavate part of a cemetery to
search for a possible mass grave of African Americans murdered by white
mobs during the 1921 Tulsa massacre - one of the worst events of racist
violence in U.S. history. On June 1, 1921, a mob of more than 1,000
white people looted and burned the prosperous African-American
neighborhood of Greenwood, often referred to as "Black Wall Street."
Thirty-five city blocks were completely destroyed, and as many as 300
people were killed. Eyewitnesses say truckloads of corpses were dumped
into unmarked mass graves.


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