Decision delayed on reinterment of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims

The massacre took place May 31 and June 1 1921, when a white mob attacked Tulsa’s Black Wall Street, killing an estimated 300 mostly black people and wounding 800 more, while robbing and burning businesses, homes and churches.

Investigators search through dirt at the scene where skeletal remains were found (Mike Simons/AP)

A US committee overseeing the search for mass graves related to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has delayed until next month a decision on how to reinter the remains of possible victims found last year.

The state of Oklahoma requires a reinterment plan before the graves are exhumed, and a plan is needed by the end of March to ensure the academic experts needed to study the remains are available this year, forensic anthropologist Phoebe Stubblefield told the 1921 Race Massacre Graves Public Oversight Committee.