Workers climb out of the excavation site as work continues on an excavation of a potential unmarked mass grave from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, at Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa, Okla., Tuesday, July 14, 2020.
On May 31 and June 1 in 1921, white residents looted and burned Tulsas black Greenwood district, killing as many as 300 people with many believed buried in mass graves.
(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)TULSA, Okla. A third day of excavation began Wednesday at a Tulsa cemetery for remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre with no human remains yet found and the search area being expanded, according to state Archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck.
Searchers decided Wednesday to expand the excavation, Stackelbeck said.
Partially because we were not finding any indicators that we were in a grave shaft but also for safety reasons.