Search underway for possible mass grave of African Americans killed in 1921 Tulsa massacre

Édité par Ed Newman
2020-02-07 23:52:17

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Tulsa, February 8 (RHC)-- In the U.S. city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, plans are being carried out to excavate part of a cemetery to search for a possible mass grave of African Americans murdered by white mobs during the 1921 Tulsa massacre — one of the worst events of racist violence in U.S. history. 

On June 1, 1921, a mob of more than 1,000 white people looted and burned the prosperous African-American neighborhood of Greenwood, often referred to as “Black Wall Street.”

Thirty-five city blocks were completely destroyed, and as many as 300 people were killed. Eyewitnesses say truckloads of corpses were dumped into unmarked mass graves.


 



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