Help locate, identify and connect people today with those who were lost more than 100 years ago.
In 2018, the City of Tulsa started the process to reexamine the potential of graves from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre as identified in a 2001 State commissioned report.
Four sites were identified in theCity of Tulsa’s examination: Oaklawn Cemetery, Newblock Park, an additional area near Newblock Park, and Rolling Oaks Memorial Gardens, formerly Booker T. Washington Cemetery.
Twenty-six death certificates were issued in 1921 for African American victims of the Massacre; 21 of those victims were reportedly buried in Oaklawn Cemetery. Newspaper reports from June 2, 1921 (Tulsa Tribune and Tulsa World) indicate that 18 adult male victims were buried in Oaklawn Cemetery Section 20. …