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RM, Tulsa race riot → Tulsa Race Massacre of 1919, No move, April 28, 2017
RM, Tulsa race riot → Tulsa race massacre, Move reverted, November 20, 2018
RM, Tulsa race riot → Tulsa race massacre, No consensus, August 8, 2019.
RM, Tulsa race riot → Tulsa Race Massacre, Request declined, October 15, 2019
RM, Tulsa race riot → Tulsa Massacre of 1921, Request declined, January 5, 2020
RM, Tulsa race riot → Tulsa race massacre, Moved, February 7, 2020

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Section sizes

Section size for Tulsa race massacre (56 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	15,490	15,490
Background	8,121	8,121
Monday, May 30 (Memorial Day)	35	3,481
Encounter in the elevator	2,141	2,141
Brief investigation	1,305	1,305
Tuesday, May 31	21	17,621
Arrest of Rowland	1,756	1,756
Newspaper coverage	3,512	3,512
Stand-off at the courthouse	4,803	4,803
Taking up arms	4,831	4,831
Outbursts of violence	2,698	2,698
Wednesday, June 1	1,360	15,480
Fires begin	2,944	2,944
Daybreak	1,371	1,371
Attack by air	5,045	5,045
Arrival of National Guard troops	4,760	4,760
Aftermath	15	36,824
Casualties	9,899	9,899
Property losses	954	954
Identities of the African American victims	3,424	3,424
Public Safety Committee	856	856
Rebuilding	4,793	4,793
Tulsa Union Depot	4,917	4,917
1921 grand jury investigation	37	6,454
Allegations of corruption	1,476	1,476
John A. Gustafson	4,941	4,941
Breaking the silence	5,512	5,512
Survivors	269	17,088
Olivia Hooker	2,442	2,442
Eldoris McCondichie	2,193	2,193
George Monroe	1,254	1,254
Mary E. Jones Parrish	2,456	2,456
Lessie Benningfield ("Mother Randle")	1,785	1,785
Hal Singer	2,053	2,053
Essie Lee Johnson Beck	1,550	1,550
Vernice Simms	1,543	1,543
Lena Eloise Taylor Butler	1,543	1,543
Tulsa Race Massacre Commission	2,243	2,243
Post-commission actions	29	27,000
Search for mass graves	12,476	12,476
Reconciliation	3,331	3,331
Survivors' lawsuit	2,526	2,526
John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park	1,609	1,609
Renewed calls for restitution	7,029	7,029
President Biden's 2021 visit	1,249	1,249
Tulsa Historical Society and Museum	1,135	1,135
Present-day Black Wall Street	1,428	1,428
In popular culture	63	13,325
Literature	3,747	3,747
Film and television	7,664	7,664
Music and art	1,851	1,851
See also	797	797
References	289	289
Bibliography	4,909	4,909
Further reading	3,274	3,274
External links	2,764	2,764
Total	172,518	172,518

Inaccurate number of deaths

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]