Search ends for remains of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims

 


TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The search for remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre ended at one location Wednesday with no remains found, but with a promise to continue searching.

Eight days of excavation at Tulsa's Oaklawn Cemetery has found no indication of bodies at Tulsa's Oaklawn Cemetery, said Oklahoma State Archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck.

"We did not find human remains, and we did not find anything indicative of a mass grave," Stackelbeck said.

"Unfortunately things did not transpire the way that we hoped that they would at this particular location," Stackelbeck said. "It is not the...



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