The Latest Breaking News from Tulsa Race Massacre

Attorneys for 3 last-known survivors of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre appeal dismissed reparations case

Attorneys seeking reparations for three living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre have filed an appeal in the case with the Oklahoma Supreme Court

The Independent UK · Aug 7, 2023

‘We will not go quietly’: Tulsa race massacre survivors vow appeal after years-in-the-making lawsuit dismissed

Survivors of a cataclysmic white supremacist attack are not giving up a fight for justice after a devastating court decision, attorneys tell Alex Wododward

The Independent UK · Jul 10, 2023

Reparations lawsuit filed by last three known survivors of Tulsa Race Massacre is dismissed

Thriving district of Greenwood was looted and burned by an angry mob in 1921 and never recovered

The Independent UK · Jul 9, 2023

Tulsa Race Massacre investigators say they've sequenced DNA from 6 possible victims

The work is part of a years-long effort to get an accurate count of how many people were killed when a white mob decimated the city's prosperous Greenwood enclave, leaving upward of 300 people dead.

WEKU · Apr 12, 2023

Latest search for Tulsa Race Massacre victims comes to end

The latest search for remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has ended with 32 additional caskets discovered and eight sets of remains exhumed

The Independent UK · Nov 19, 2022

Investigators hunting victims of massacre by racist mob find 21 coffins including kids

The Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the darkest points of race relations in post-slavery US. Mobs of white people destroyed the area known as Black Wall Street and as many as 300 people were believed to be killed

Daily Mirror · Nov 3, 2022

21 more unmarked graves are discovered in the Tulsa Race Massacre investigation

Historians say up to 300 Black people were killed in the 1921 attack and the days that followed. Nearly all are believed to have been buried in mass graves approved by white authorities of the time.

WEKU · Nov 2, 2022

21 new graves found in search for Tulsa Massacre victims

Officials say the search for remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has turned up 21 additional graves in the city’s Oaklawn Cemetery

The Independent UK · Nov 2, 2022

Exhumations to resume in a bid to identify Tulsa Race Massacre victims

Some of the 19 bodies taken from a Tulsa cemetery and later reburied that could include remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre will be exhumed again starting Wednesday.

WEKU · Oct 26, 2022

Exhumations to resume; Bid to ID Tulsa Race Massacre victims

Some bodies taken from a Tulsa cemetery and later reburied that could be remains of possible victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre will be exhumed again starting Wednesday

The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2022