Wandering into Tulsa’s oldest existing ceremony in May may not feel too different to visiting other graveyards around the U.S., but the fresh grass, blue sky and mid-afternoon serenity mask a disturbing past.
Investigators continue to learn new things about Oaklawn, which is located near the historic Greenwood district targeted by white supremacists in the Tulsa Race Massacre 105 years ago today. Up to 300 Black people lost their lives at the hands of the murderous white thugs, who burned down Greenwood – known as ‘Black Wall Street’ – when it was the wealthiest Black community in America in 1921.
The angry mob get away with the murders of hundreds of African Americans, enabled by their own bold-faced lies about the crime. But recent discoveries at Oaklawn revealed new crimes by the 10,000 White supremacists – and how far they went to clean the blood on their hands. More than 80 previously unknown victims have been found since 2020…