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Inaccurate number of deaths

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Seems like number of confirmed deaths should be higher, given 120 graves being reported on by AP News: https://apnews.com/article/tulsa-1921-race-massacre-graves-identified-c7cdcd5ca4e54ec27bbb836beae86404

Is this article out of date or is there a reason to have various casualty estimates? Ma7ged (talk) 20:20, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AP News has simply misreported the facts. The Oaklawn cemetery contains many hundreds of ordinary unmarked graves. They are simply graves with no headstone. Just one of those recently excavated has been linked to the 1921 event. Nor did any contemporary ever report that 300 blacks died.That figure first came from the report by the Tulsa Red Cross in the which its head wrote that he didn't know how many had died but that he had heard estimates ranging from 50 to 300. But any such estimate included white fatalities as well as black. 92.26.176.67 (talk) 15:31, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It seems 3 more bodies have been found. Slatersteven (talk) 16:57, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]