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ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Unearthing history: Tulsa massacre victims search resumes As the U.S. marks 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre, researchers, including descendants of Black victims of the violence, are preparing to resume a search for remains believed to have been hastily buried in mass graves By KEN MILLER Associated Press May 27, 2021, 4:16 PM • 6 min read The Associated Press FILE - In this Friday, July 17, 2020 file photo, workers sift through soil in a truck as work continues for the fifth day on an excavation of a potential unmarked mass grave from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, at Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa, Okla. “Most of these people were just thrown away, their bodies were buried while their loved ones were being held by armed guards in internment camps,” said Scott Ellsworth, a University of Michigan professor of Afroamerican and African studies who is consulting on the search and is among

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