Scene at Convention Hall (Tulsa Race Riot June 1st 1921)

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

A sepia-toned photographic postcard depicting the body of an unidentified victim and a large crowd at the Convention Hall during the Tulsa Race Massacre. In the foreground of the image, a white man stands on the back of a flat-bed truck. On the truck bed, a black man sits next to the prone body of an unidentified victim. In the background a column of African Americans with their hands raised in surrender are corraled into the Convention Hall by several white men. Several onlookers stand in the top left corner near another entrance to the hall. Along the bottom of the image, written into the negative and appearing as white text is [TULSA RACE RIOT JUST 1st 1921 / SCENE AT CONVENTION HALL]. The verso is marked [POST CARD] at the top with spaces for [CORRESPONDENCE] and [ADDRESS] and an AZO stamp box in the top right corner.

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