Photograph of the Greenwood District burning during the Tulsa Race Massacre

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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.

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