City of Tulsa
The committee overseeing the investigation searching for mass graves from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre met virtually Thursday to discuss their options regarding potential exhumation of remains found in Oaklawn Cemetery last year.
In a presentation to committee members, Tulsa Deputy Mayor Amy Brown said that to proceed with an exhumation, the city would need to receive approval from the Oklahoma State Department of Health on a plan for reinterment of any human remains.
As of now, Brown said, since the identities of the bodies discovered last year are unknown, the city can serve as next-of-kin to file for disinterment and reinterment, and the likely quickest route would be a proposal to exhume and then reinter remains in Oaklawn Cemetery.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day events in Oklahoma were noticeably impacted by two unique circumstances Monday. Every year, usually . they have the marching groups. Next year, we ll be back with the walking groups, with the dancing groups, said Tulsa s MLK Day Parade emcee Rebecca Marks-Jimerson, doing color commentary for a livestream of the event. But this year, because of the COVID, we are doing the social distancing. But we re making it happen for you.
Bands and other marchers were kept from the route due to the pandemic, and in-person spectators were discouraged and directed to TV broadcasts and the livestream.