Historians say the white mob violence in Tulsa that targeted Black Americans in 1921 left between 75 and 300 people dead.
TULSA — A team of scientists started the process of re-exhuming human remains Wednesday in their effort to identify people killed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst-known examples of white mob violence against Black Americans in U.S. history.
None of the remains recovered are identified or confirmed as victims of the massacre in which more than 1,000 homes were burned, hundreds were looted and a thriving business district known as Black Wall Street was destroyed in the racist violence. Historians have estimated the death toll to be between 75 and 300, with generational wealth being wiped out.
“There are samples that are very light right now on DNA, some that are semi-viable, some that are just on the threshold," Hellwig said.
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