Tulsa massacre: The search for victims, 100 years on

A hundred years after white mobs rampaged through an affluent black neighbourhood, the search for bodies is a deeply personal mission for one scientist.

"My job," says Dr Phoebe Stubblefield, "is to let the bones speak."

Now the forensic anthropologist is at the forefront of the search for victims of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre.

It is a professional - and a personal - mission for the research scientist at the University of Florida.

"There are not very many black forensic anthropologists," she says. "For Tulsa, it's this rare chance of let a black person use black bodies to tell their story."

As the centenary of the Tulsa massacre approaches, it remains the worst single incident of racial violence in US history.