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Exhumations to resume in a bid to identify Tulsa Race Massacre victims : NPR
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class="credit-caption"> <div class="caption-wrap"> <div class="caption" aria-label="Image caption"> <p> 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. <b class="credit" aria-label="Image credit"> Mike Simons/AP </b> <b class="hide-caption"><b>hide caption</b></b> </p> </div> <b class="toggle-caption"><b>toggle caption</b></b> </div> <span class="credit" aria-label="Image credit"> Mike Simons/AP </span> </div> <div class="enlarge_measure"> <div class="img_wrap"> <picture> <source data-original="https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/10/26/ap22298813745037-3c8c9e2e2442e12c88b7e9432f750714211a0c2c-s1200.webp" type="image/webp"> <source data-original="https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/10/26/ap22298813745037-3c8c9e2e2442e12c88b7e9432f750714211a0c2c-s1200.jpg" type="image/jpeg"> <img 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city will be followed by another excavation for additional remains.</p> <p>"There were 14 of the 19 (bodies) that fit the criteria for further DNA analysis," according to city spokesperson Michelle Brooks. "These are the ones that will be re-exhumed."</p> <div id="res1131537480" class="bucketwrap internallink insettwocolumn inset2col "> <div class="bucket img"> <a id="featuredStackSquareImage1000923192" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221026192236/https://www.npr.org/2021/05/30/1000923192/3-documentaries-you-should-watch-about-the-tulsa-race-massacre" data-metrics="{"category":"Story to Story","action":"Click Internal Link","label":"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/05\/30\/1000923192\/3-documentaries-you-should-watch-about-the-tulsa-race-massacre"}" data-metrics-ga4="{"category":"recirculation","action":"story_recirculation_click","clickType":"inset box","clickUrl":"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/05\/30\/1000923192\/3-documentaries-you-should-watch-about-the-tulsa-race-massacre"}"><picture><source srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20221026192236im_/https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/05/28/1989-004-5-02-scaled-1_sq-f165e4bc0ffb0c006e58a6249c1e615c7b054913-s100-c15.webp" data-original="https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/05/28/1989-004-5-02-scaled-1_sq-f165e4bc0ffb0c006e58a6249c1e615c7b054913-s100.webp" data-format="webp" class="img lazyOnLoad" type="image/webp"/><source srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20221026192236im_/https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/05/28/1989-004-5-02-scaled-1_sq-f165e4bc0ffb0c006e58a6249c1e615c7b054913-s100-c15.jpeg" data-original="https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/05/28/1989-004-5-02-scaled-1_sq-f165e4bc0ffb0c006e58a6249c1e615c7b054913-s100.jpeg" data-format="jpeg" class="img lazyOnLoad" type="image/jpeg"/><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20221026192236im_/https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/05/28/1989-004-5-02-scaled-1_sq-f165e4bc0ffb0c006e58a6249c1e615c7b054913-s100-c15.jpeg" data-original="https://web.archive.org/web/20221026192236/https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/05/28/1989-004-5-02-scaled-1_sq-f165e4bc0ffb0c006e58a6249c1e615c7b054913-s100.jpeg" data-format="jpeg" class="img lazyOnLoad" alt="3 Documentaries You Should Watch About The Tulsa Race Massacre" loading="lazy"/></picture></a> <div class="bucketblock"> <h3 class="slug"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221026192236/https://www.npr.org/series/1001433852/the-tulsa-race-massacre">The Tulsa Race Massacre </a></h3> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221026192236/https://www.npr.org/2021/05/30/1000923192/3-documentaries-you-should-watch-about-the-tulsa-race-massacre" data-metrics="{"category":"Story to Story","action":"Click Internal Link","label":"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/05\/30\/1000923192\/3-documentaries-you-should-watch-about-the-tulsa-race-massacre"}" data-metrics-ga4="{"category":"recirculation","action":"story_recirculation_click","clickType":"inset box","clickUrl":"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/05\/30\/1000923192\/3-documentaries-you-should-watch-about-the-tulsa-race-massacre"}">3 Documentaries You Should Watch About The Tulsa Race Massacre</a></h3> </div> <!-- END CLASS="BUCKETBLOCK" --> </div> <!-- END CLASS="BUCKET IMG" --> </div> <!-- END ID="RES1131537480" CLASS="BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK INSETTWOCOLUMN INSET2COL " --> <p>The 14 sets of remains were sent to Intermountain Forensics in Salt Lake City, Utah, in an attempt to identify them. Brooks said two sets have enough DNA recovered to begin sequencing.</p> <p>It wasn't immediately clear how many of the 14 will be exhumed a second time, Brooks said.</p> <p>The remains will be reburied at Oaklawn, where the previous reburial drew protests from about two dozen people who said they are descendants of massacre victims and should have been allowed to attend the ceremony, which was closed to the public.</p> <aside id="ad-backstage-wrap" aria-label="advertisement"> <div id="ad-backstage-News_National" class="ad-backstage" data-ad-config="{"network":"\/6735\/","site":{"default":"n6735.NPR","mobile":"n6735.NPRMOBILE","sponsor_content":"npr_sponsor_content","default_secondary":"NPRSecondary","mobile_secondary":"NPRMobileSecondary"},"zone":"News_National","targets":{"testserver":"false","isPodcastEpisode":"false","storyId":"1131536970","agg":["1001433852","593868387"]},"location":"backstage","deferred":false,"isBetweenContent":true,"borderClass":""}"></div> </aside> <p>Intermountain Forensics is seeking people who believe they are descendants of massacre victims to provide genetic material to help scientists when they begin trying to identify remains of possible victims.</p> <p>The exhumations will be followed by another search for bodies in an area south and west of the areas previously excavated in 2020 and 2021.</p> <p>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 a thriving business district known as Black Wall Street was destroyed.</p> <p>Historians who have studied the event estimate the death toll to be between 75 and 300.</p> <p>Victims were never compensated, however a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221026192236/https://www.npr.org/2022/05/04/1096582626/a-lawsuit-by-survivors-of-the-tulsa-race-massacre-can-proceed-a-judge-rules">pending lawsuit seeks reparations</a> for the three remaining known survivors of the violence.</p> 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