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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Ken Miller

Remains exhumed from a Tulsa cemetery as the search for 1921 Race Massacre victims has resumed

Tulsa World

Archaeologists have exhumed the remains of one person and plan to exhume a second set as the search for victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre resumes in a Tulsa cemetery.

The remains are among 22 sets found during the current search in Oaklawn Cemetery, but are the only ones found in simple, wooden caskets as described by newspaper articles, death certificates and funeral home records, Oklahoma state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck said Thursday.

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