Tulsa Race Massacre

(Newser) - The process of re-exhuming of some of the 19 bodies exhumed a year ago for testing—in an effort to identify victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre—began Wednesday to gather more DNA from the remains. The latest exhumations of bodies that were taken from Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa,...

(Newser) - Only three survivors remain from the Tulsa Race Massacre , the 1921 attack in which a white mob descended upon the city's affluent Black neighborhood of Greenwood, torched more than 1,250 homes, and killed hundreds. That trio never received any reparations from either Tulsa or the state of Oklahoma,...