Photograph of the Greenwood District burning during the Tulsa Race Massacre
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Date
- 1921
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on paper (fiber product)
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image and sheet): 4 1/8 × 6 in. (10.5 × 15.2 cm)
- H x W (Board): 12 × 8 in. (30.5 × 20.3 cm)
- Caption
- 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.
- Description
- 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.
- Place depicted
- Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Cassandra P. Johnson Smith
- Object number
- 2019.95.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.