Tulsa race massacre: Search continues for mass grave site from 1921
Archaeologists and dig crews have resumed the excavation of a suspected mass grave in , the site of one of the bloodiest episodes of racist violence in the US. A white mob terrorised hundreds of black Americans during a nearly two-day massacre on 31 May 1921. Armed white men, backed by Oklahoma officials and law enforcement, shot at black residents, bombed buildings and set them ablaze, destroying 35 blocks of homes, businesses, churches and schools in the city's prosperous Greenwood neighbourhood, known as Black Wall Street. Scores of ...
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