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News Articles: Series: The Tulsa Race Massacre

Scientists at the site in Tulsa, Okla., will begin excavating by hand, using finer grain tools to clean up the coffins. That will help researchers analyze the construction style and hardware of the caskets in order to determine when they were interred.

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  • Race

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.

November 02, 2022
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
A group prays during a small ceremony as remains from a mass grave are re-interred at Oaklawn Cemetery on July 30, 2021, in Tulsa, Okla.

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  • National

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.

October 26, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The Black Wall Street Memorial last year in Tulsa, Okla. President Biden visited Tulsa on Tuesday for the 100th anniversary of an attack that left as many as 300 people dead.

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  • Politics

Biden Says The Tulsa Race Massacre 'Can't Be Buried, No Matter How Hard People Try'

The president met with survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre as the nation pauses to mark the anniversary of an attack that remains one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history.

June 01, 2021
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By:
  • Ayesha Rascoe and
  • Alana Wise
John Rogers, co-CEO of Ariel Investments, stands for a Bloomberg Television spot in Atlantic City, N.J., July 22, 2013. Rogers tells NPR about the emotional and financial impact the Tulsa riots had on his family.

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  • Business

How Tulsa Race Massacre Shaped Today's Most Successful Black CEOs

Ariel Investments CEO John Rogers, TIAA CEO Thasunda Duckett, and former American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault reflect on what the Tulsa events a century ago has meant to them.

May 31, 2021
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  • David Gura
Artist Paul Rucker is creating a new multimedia work to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. That's when a thriving African American community was destroyed in a horrific act of violence that wiped out hundreds of Black-owned businesses and homes. Above, an aerial view of Tulsa, Okla., Fowler & Kelly, 1918.

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  • Art & Design

Artist's Black Wall Street Project Is About Tulsa 100 Years Ago — And Today

Paul Rucker's multimedia work tackles mass incarceration, lynching, police brutality and the ways America has been shaped by slavery. His latest marks the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre.

May 31, 2021
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  • Neda Ulaby
<strong></strong>"Little Africa on fire, Tulsa Race Riot, June 1, 1921"

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  • Race

3 Documentaries You Should Watch About The Tulsa Race Massacre

Monday is the 100th anniversary of one of the worst acts of racial violence in American history. A spate of books and documentaries are marking the moment; we round up three to watch this weekend.

May 30, 2021
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  • Eric Deggans
The original cover of Jewell Parker Rhodes' novel, <em>Magic City.</em>

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  • Race

In Both Fact And Fiction, The Truth Of Tulsa Is Hard To Stomach

When author Jewell Parker Rhodes tried to publish a novel retelling the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre, she found that not everyone was ready to reckon with the city's painful, traumatic history.

May 29, 2021
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  • Karen Grigsby Bates
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  • History

100 Years Later, A Survivor's Story Of The Tulsa Race Massacre

On May 31, 1921, a group of white locals launched an attack on a thriving Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla. The Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.

May 28, 2021
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