Historians say up to 300 Black people were killed in the 1921 attack and the days that followed. Nearly all are believed to have been buried in mass graves approved by white authorities of the time.
The search for remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has turned up 21 additional coffins in unmarked graves. A violent white mob targeted Black people during the massacre, in which more than 1,000 homes were burned, hundreds were looted. Historians have estimated the death toll at 75 to 300.
<p>"Black family members of the deceased were reportedly barred from witnessing the burials, as they were held under armed guard, away from their dead mothers, fathers, sons and daughters."</p>