Tulsa is resuming work to find the mass graves dug during its 1921 race massacre
Excavators will resume work looking for mass graves resulting from the Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in US history.
The work, which was paused in March due to the coronavirus outbreak, had zeroed in on a section of Tulsa's Oaklawn Cemetery, where a geophysical scan in December 2019 found anomalies consistent with a mass grave.
It will resume work next Monday, July 13.
The site is considered to be a possible resting place of the hundreds of Black Americans killed by white mobs in 1921, who targeted the Greenwood district, which had come to be known as "Black Wall Street" for its concentration of successful Black-owned businesses.
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