View of the riot district.

Title

View of the riot district.

Description

View of the riot district taken from the roof of Booker T. Washington High School. The ruins of Dunbar Elementary School is center, with the smoldering ruins of the brick buildings at Greenwood and Archer on your upper right. Upper left is the ABC Construction buildings and the Midland tracks.

The photo is a very poor quality reproduction from a microfilmed copy of the Chicago Defender.

Creator

Unknown photographer

Source

Chicago Defender. 1921 June 11

Date

1921 June [2 or 3]

Rights

This item was published in 1921 and therefore is in the Public Domain.

Files

riotdefenderA.jpg

Collection

Citation

Unknown photographer, “View of the riot district.,” Tulsa Race Riot Photographs, accessed March 19, 2024, https://tulsaraceriot.omeka.net/items/show/1.