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Tulsa to Move Forward in Search for Mass Graves From 1921 Black Wall Street Massacre

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Feb 05, 2020
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City officials in Tulsa, Oklahoma announced they are moving forward with plans to dig for mass graves that may have been used to dispose of victims of the city’s Black Wall Street Massacre. Over the course of two days in 1921 mobs of angry white residents set businesses and homes in Greenwood ablaze, the city’s thriving Black neighborhood, also known as…

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