By: Amy Slanchik
TULSA, Oklahoma -
The initial groundwork at Rolling Oaks Memorial Gardens Cemetery wrapped up Tuesday in the search for mass graves from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
It’s the first step in deciding whether any digging will happen at the south Tulsa cemetery.
Archaeologists spent Monday and part of Tuesday working at the cemetery, which was closed to the public during that time.
The City of Tulsa took pictures showing the Oklahoma Archeological Survey team doing its initial scanning work with the ground penetrating radar and other equipment.
The site was one of several locations listed in the 2001 state-commissioned report about the massacre as a potential location where victims could be.
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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
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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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