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Desk from the Dreamland Theater in the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa

Manufactured by: Unidentified
Subject of: Williams Dreamland Theater, American, founded 1906

Medium: wood, metal, varnish
Dimensions: 32 x 33 x 17 1/4 in. (81.3 x 83.8 x 43.8 cm)

Type: writing desks

Place collected: Greenwood, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America

Date: early 20th century

Description: Wooden writing desk with four fluted legs. At the front, below the mid-section, on either side are long rectangles of wood with angled triangles extending out from center. The desk has four cubby holes below a shelf on the back of the writing surface. There is a pair of cubbies on either side of the desk’s writing surface as well. The writing surface slides in and out of mid-section with two hand holds for easy access on either side of the top near the front. The front portion of the writing top is slightly curved. The desk has a large rectangular drawer with scalloped lower edges on the front. The front of the drawer has two pairs of carved out scallops near the center. The drawer slides in and out of lower portion of the desk top.

Topic: African American; Business; Race discrimination; United States--History--1919-1933

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Families of Anita Williams Christopher and David Owen Williams

Object number: 2013.119

Restrictions & Rights: Public Domain

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Classification: Furnishings, Housewares, and Décor
Exhibition: Power of Place
On View: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Community/Third Floor, 3 051

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

The Tulsa Race Riot and Three of Its Victims

Written by: B. C. Franklin, American, 1879 - 1960

Medium: ink on paper (fiber product) with metal
Dimensions: H x W: 14 × 9 in. (35.6 × 22.9 cm)

Type: manuscripts

Place depicted: Greenwood, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America

Date: August 22, 1931

Description: A manuscript titled “The Tulsa Race Riot and Three of Its Victims” by B. C. Franklin. The unpublished manuscript consists of ten pages written in black type on yellowed paper. It was written ten years after the Tulsa Riots on August 22, 1931 and recounts the events of the Tulsa Riot as witnessed by the author. The pages contain an account of Franklin witnessing three men being killed by the mob. The manuscript is signed by B.C. Franklin on the last page.

Topic: African American; American South; American West; Race relations; United States--History--1919-1933; Violence

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Tulsa Friends and John W. and Karen R. Franklin

Object number: 2015.176.1

Restrictions & Rights: Public domain

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Classification: Documents and Published Materials

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Photograph of B.C. Franklin, I.H. Spears, and Effie Thompson

Created by: Unidentified
Subject of: B. C. Franklin, American, 1879 - 1960; Spears, I. H., American; Thompson, Effie

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints; portraits

Place depicted: Greenwood, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America

Date: June 6, 1921

Description: A black and white photograph of B.C. Franklin (right) and I. H. Spears (left), with Secretary Effie Thompson (center), in their temporary tent office after the Tulsa Race Riot, 1921. Franklin and Spears sit on either end of a desk facing the camera. They are both holding books in their hands and looking down towards the books. Thompson stands in the center background of the photograph behind the desk. The date is handwritten just below the image on the front of the photograph. There is also a handwritten inscription on the back that identifies the subject and date of the photograph.

Topic: African American; American South; American West; Justice; Law; Race relations; United States--History--1919-1933

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Tulsa Friends and John W. and Karen R. Franklin

Object number: 2015.176.2

Restrictions & Rights: Public domain

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Panaromic photograph of workers outside the Grendel Textile Mill

Created by: Unidentified
Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W: 7 1/2 x 25 in. (19.1 x 63.5 cm)

Type: gelatin silver prints

Place depicted: Greenwood, Greenwood County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America

Date: 1923-1924

Description: A panoramic photograph of nearly a hundred men, many of them African American, posing for a formal photograph in front of the Grendel Textile Mill in Greenwood, South Carolina.

Topic: African American; Labor; Men; Photography

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Nancy Adams and Daisy Holsonback

Object number: 2012.92

Restrictions & Rights: Public domain

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Classification: Media Arts-Photography

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Rosie Head Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Head, Rosie M., American
Interviewed by: Dittmer, John Ph. D., American, born 1939
Subject of: Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, American, founded 1964; Child Development Group of Mississippi, American, founded 1965

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 01:18:59

Type: video recordings; oral histories; digital media - born digital

Place collected: Tchula, Holmes County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Greenwood, Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America

Date: March 13, 2013

Description: The oral history consists of seven digital files: 2011.174.74.1a, 2011.174.74.1b, 2011.174.74.1c, 2011.174.74.1d, 2011.174.74.1e, 2011.174.74.1f, and 2011.174.74.1g.; Rosie Head describes her early life in Greenwood, Mississippi, where her family lived and worked on a plantation. She discusses how her parents faced racial discrimination in their work and how they were cheated by the plantation owner and then blacklisted. In 1964, Head joined the Civil Rights Movement in Tchula, Mississippi, where her family had relocated. Head recounts the various ways she was involved in the movement: registering voters, working with Freedom Summer volunteers, helping to establish the Child Development Group of Mississippi, and campaigning for black candidates for political office.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0074

Topic: African American; Activism; American South; Associations and institutions; Children; Civil rights; Labor; Politics (Practical); Race discrimination; Social reform; United States--History--1961-1969

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Object number: 2011.174.74.1a-g

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Collection title: Civil Rights History Project
Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Rick Tuttle, Ph. D. Oral History Interview

Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
Interview of: Tuttle, Rick Ph. D., American, born 1940
Interviewed by: Cline, David P. Ph. D., American, born 1969
Subject of: Freedom Riders, American, founded 1961; Wesleyan University, American, founded 1831; University of California, Los Angeles, American, founded 1919; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s; Ku Klux Klan, 3rd, American, founded 1946; Chatham County Crusade for Voters, American, c. 1960

Medium: digital
Dimensions: Duration: 02:04:49

Type: video recordings; oral histories; digital media - born digital

Place collected: Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Los Angeles, California, United States, North and Central America; Greenwood, Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America; Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America

Date: April 11, 2013

Description: The oral history consists of six digital files: 2011.174.78.1a, 2011.174.78.1b, 2011.174.78.1c, 2011.174.78.1d, 2011.174.78.1e, and 2011.174.78.1f.; Rick Tuttle, Ph. D. describes his family background and when he first became aware of the sit-in movement and the Freedom Rides when he was a student at Wesleyan University. As a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), he was recruited to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1963 and went to Greenwood, Mississippi, to work on voter registration drives. He also briefly spied on white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan meetings. After being driven out of Mississippi by threats, he joined the Chatham County Crusade for Voters in Savannah, Georgia. Tuttle describes being arrested in Savannah for disturbing the peace and the subsequent trial. Tuttle discusses the work he did after leaving the Movement: as the comptroller in Los Angeles he helped to bring an end to segregation at private clubs and participated in the anti-apartheid movement.; LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0078

Topic: African American; Activism; American South; American West; Associations and institutions; Civil rights; Education; Resistance; Segregation; Social reform; Suffrage; United States--History--1961-1969; White supremacy movements

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Object number: 2011.174.78.1a-f

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Collection title: Civil Rights History Project
Classification: Media Arts-Film and Video

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Rosie Head Oral History Interview

Rick Tuttle, Ph. D. Oral History Interview