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Utahn is first ever Tulsa Race Massacre victim identified through DNA

The man, C.L. Daniel, had been working to find a job in Utah and trying to get back to his mother in Georgia when he was killed in the 1921 massacre, officials believe.

(Joseph Rushmore | The New York Times) Exhumed remains from a mass grave in Oaklawn Cemetery thought to contain the remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre are taken to a forensics lab, June 9, 2021. DNA evidence has since helped identify a victim — a 20-something Black man whose last known residence was in Utah.