“This constitutes a mass grave,” she said. In 2018, Bynum ordered the city to search for potential mass graves after a Washington Post story detailed the unresolved questions surrounding the massacre. “What we do know today is, there is a mass grave in Oaklawn Cemetery, where we had no record of anyone being buried,” Bynum said. ADADIn July, Tulsa made history by physically digging for mass graves. The mass grave found Wednesday was discovered in the “Original 18” area, near the headstones of Reuben Everett and Eddie Lockard, the only known marked graves of massacre victims in the cemetery.

Source: Washington Post October 22, 2020 01:07 UTC