Really not known as the immediate aftermath of the event was the dispersal of much of the black population that in general wanted to put it behind them and not have it follow them. This is a worst kept secret sort of thing. It has certainly been covered and stories in the last 30 to 40 years. The movie Rosewood generated a lot of publicity about a similar event and within that coverage were many passing references to Tulsa. Also... there is still a black Tulsa which lives on over the figurative rubble of the event and this was possible because of the muted remembrance of the event. Anyway... numbers are hard to come by. Some eyewitnesses claim they saw thousands of bodies. Hard to fact check as many fled...networks were disrupted... exchange of information on survivors was secret... communication fractured and intermittent. This happened in 1920... remember how long it took before world trade center casualty estimates went from 20,000 to the verified number of 3,000 plus... it had to have been more than a week in a modern computerized society where the entire world knew and was awaiting the answer. You can imagine how hard the info was to come by when all the important people and information sources just want it to go away!!!!
Anyway...in new York...a local public Access channel used to play a loop of programming featuring an interview with a survivor of Tulsa... she died in recent years but she was not an unknown person whose life path crossed some interesting Lane and people here is a link... https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/olivia-hooker-one-of-the-last-survivors-of-the-1921-tulsa-race-massacre-dies-at-103/2018/11/22/f5c03934-ee71-11e8-8679-934a2b33be52_story.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/olivia-hooker-one-last-survivors-1921-tulsa-race-riot-dies-n939651
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