This is a disturbing story, be forewarned, I thought the "racial massacre" would be somewhere overseas or something.
Ground-penetrating radar in hunt for dead in racial massacre
Janet Mcconnaughey, Associated Press
Updated 6:10 pm, Thursday, May 17, 2018
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Researchers searching for a possible mass grave from a racial massacre in 1887 said they picked up signals Thursday of disturbed earth at a south Louisiana site, but they cautioned they don't know yet what ground-penetrating radar detected.
The signals were detected Thursday, the first day of a survey of a vacant lot in the community of Thibodaux, where locals believe white mobs dumped the bodies of African-Americans killed during a Reconstruction era rampage. The mobs were out to break a monthlong strike by sugar plantation field hands, many of them ex-slaves, in the era following the American civil war.
The experts were cautious as radar probed for underground disturbances warranting further investigation.
Read more at: https://www.sfgate.com/news/education/article/Searching-for-mass-grave-of-victims-in-1887-12921629.php
Note, the story goes on to say, an old oil rig was at this site at one time as well. Maybe that is what they found.
