(CNN) A decades-long effort to recover mass burial plots from the 1921 Tulsa race riot has been spurred forward after an investigation found that two sites in the Oklahoma city may contain unmarked mass graves. On Monday, the city's 1921 Mass Graves Investigation Public Oversight Committee presented the results publicly and discussed how the city should proceed. The deadly 1921 massacreThe Tulsa race riot of 1921, also called the Tulsa race massacre, resulted in the death of hundreds of African American residents of the city's Greenwood district -- then a black economic hub -- when a mob of white rioters looted and burned the community. Ultimately, the white man was shot , and hell broke loose in Tulsa. "As we open this investigation 98 years later, there are both unknowns and truths to uncover," Bynum said in a statement in October.

Source: CNN December 17, 2019 16:41 UTC