Historians say the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre left between 75 and 300 people dead, while the thriving business district known as Black Wall Street was destroyed. FOX13
Dr. Kristen Oertel, the chairperson of the Department of History at the University of Tulsa, discusses the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history, ahead of the event's 100-year anniversary.Some of the 19 bodies taken from a Tulsa cemetery and later reburied that could include remains of victims of thewill be exhumed again starting Wednesday, part of a bid to gather more DNA for possible identification.
"There were 14 of the 19 that fit the criteria for further DNA analysis," according to city spokesperson Michelle Brooks. "These are the ones that will be re-exhumed." The remains will be reburied at Oaklawn, where the previous reburial drew protests from about two dozen people who said they are descendants of massacre victims and should have been allowed to attend the ceremony, which was closed to the public.