Photograph of the Greenwood District burning during the Tulsa Race Massacre

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black-and-white photograph of the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma burning during the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921. The image depicts a building and several people in the foreground watching large plumes of dark smoke rising in the background. The photograph is bent at corners and has loss at top center edge. The photograph is fused to cardstock along with photograph 2019.95.2.

Explore Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture ↗