Mass grave found in search for 1921 Tulsa race massacre victims

Investigators believe at least 10 bodies discovered amid excavations in Tusla, Oklahoma, could be connected to a 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre mass burial site.

State officials say the remains were found underneath a city cemetery, some three feet below the surface, where several bodies had been placed and buried in the same unmarked shaft.

“This constitutes a mass grave," Kary Stackelbeck, Oklahoma’s state archaeologist for Oklahoma, said in an announcement.

Authorities and campaigners believe hundreds could have been buried in unmarked graves following the 1921 Tulsa massacre, when a white mob attacked the city’s “Black Wall Street”.



Scientists said late last year that ground-penetrating radar had picked-up “anomalies” consistent with mass graves at three locations that warranted further testing.