the tulsa race massacre: 100 years later

For decades, Black people in Tulsa have demanded the city investigate if there are race massacre victims buried in unmarked graves in Oaklawn Cemetery.it felt like a step forward when at least 11 bodies were found in an unmarked mass grave at the cemetery in 2020.
While much more investigation is needed to verify the bodies identities, finding this mass grave felt like a complicated moment of relief, rage and grief for the community.
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre remains one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history, and also one of the least-known. News reports were largely suppressed, despite the fact that hundreds of people were killed and thousands left homeless when white rioters attacked the predominantly Black Greenwood District, an affluent area of Tulsa once called “Black Wall Street.”