black section

The Black section’s graves provide no level surface.

The just-ended search began Sept. 5 and was the third such excavation in the search for the remains of the estimated 75 to 300 Black people killed during the 1921 massacre at the hands of a white mob that descended on Greenwood, the Black section of Tulsa.

The latest search began Sept. 5 and is the third such excavation in the search for remains of the estimated 75 to 300 Black people killed during the 1921 massacre at the hands of a white mob that descended on the Black section of Tulsa — Greenwood.

The massacre occurred May 31 and June 1, 1921, when a white mob descended on Greenwood - the Black section of Tulsa.

State Representative Beverly Chester-Burton, who represents a majority Black section of the city, called the report “a game changer.”