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Search for Victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre Has Uncovered 27 Coffins There are strong reasons to suspect that the mass grave was for victims of the 1921 killing, given contemporary evidence. Archaeological and excavation teams at a mass grave in Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa, Okla., this week.Credit.Joseph Rushmore for The New York Times June 9, 2021, 7:40 p.m. ET Last summer, after generations of silence and denial, the city of Tulsa, Okla., began excavations in search of the graves of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Nearly a century had passed since a mob of white Tulsans violently invaded the prosperous Black neighborhood of Greenwood, overcoming a vigorous defense by some residents, killing and rounding up Black Tulsans en masse and burning much of the neighborhood to the ground.

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