Photograph of the Greenwood District burning during the Tulsa Race Massacre
date: label: Date
content: 1921
name: label: Created by
content: Unidentified
notes: label: Caption
content: On May 31 and June 1, 1921, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, mobs of white residents brutally attacked the African American community of Greenwood, colloquially known as "Black Wall Street," in the deadliest racial massacre in U.S. history. Homes, businesses, and community structures including schools, churches, a hospital, and the library were looted and burned or otherwise destroyed. Exact statistics are unknown, but the violence left around 10,000 people homeless and as many as 300 people dead with many more missing and wounded.
label: Description
content: A black-and-white photograph of several buildings in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma burning during the Tulsa Race Massacre. In the foreground is an open lot with several clusters of people near cars, standing and sitting atop a rail car, and a small crowd of spectators sitting at the lower right corner. The people face away from the camera, towards a line of buildings in the background A large plume of smoke is rising at the center, and there is smoke all along the horizon. There is loss at the top left corner of the photograph, and top and bottom left corners are creased where bent. Photograph is fused to cardstock along with objects 2019.95.7, 2019.95.8, and 2019.95.9.
place: label: Place depicted
content: Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Communities
label: Topic
content: Race relations
label: Topic
content: Race riots
label: Topic
content: Tulsa Race Massacre
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1919-1933
label: Topic
content: Violence
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Cassandra P. Johnson Smith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2019.95.10
objectType: label: Type
content: gelatin silver prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver and photographic gelatin on paper (fiber product)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image and sheet): 2 1/2 × 5 in. (6.4 × 12.7 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Board): 8 × 12 in. (20.3 × 30.5 cm)