Scientists consulting with a public oversight committee investigating the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre shared plans this week to extract more DNA from recently reburied remains and search new sites for additional bodies.
A search for the graves of massacre victims began in 2020 and resumed last year with nearly three dozen coffins recovered that contained the remains of possible victims.
Fourteen sets of the remains were sent to Intermountain Forensics in Salt Lake City, Utah, in an attempt to identify them with two sets having enough DNA recovered to begin sequencing. Scientists plan to conduct soil testing at two sites along the Arkansas River where victims of the massacre were believed to have been buried in mass graves.
The collection of additional DNA is an effort to provide enough to begin sequencing on the other remains. None of the remains recovered thus far are confirmed as victims of the massacre in which more than 1,000 homes were burned, hundreds were looted and Black Wall Street's thriving business district was destroyed.Victims were never compensated. However,
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