Investigators find a mass grave while searching for 1921 Tulsa race massacre victims

The outlines of at least 10 coffins were found at the Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck said she has a"high degree of confidence that this is one of the locations that we have been looking for." But she said investigators are remaining cautious because they have not done anything to expose the human remains.

"We still have a lot of work to do to identify the nature of that mass grave and identify who is in it, but what we do know, as of today, is that there is a mass grave in Oaklawn Cemetery where we have no record of anyone being buried," Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum said Wednesday in a news conference. City officials launched an effort to find the victims' remains in 2018. An excavation in another area of the cemetery in July yielded no results.

Historians believe as many as 300 people died after more than 1,000 homes were burned and destroyed. At the end of the violence, Black Wall Street was decimated. Historical photos show bodies of Black residents lying in the streets.

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