Impact Magazine, Vol. 4

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A copy of Impact Magazine, Vol. 4, a special issue on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the event. The front cover of the magazine is primarily black with the magazine’s title, [IMPACT] printed in large white letters inside a thick white frame in the shape of the state of Oklahoma. Small white text printed below the masthead reads [VOLUME 4 JUNE – JULY ISSUE FIFTY CENTS]. The bottom two-thirds of the cover has a color image of flames surrounding white text reading [The Disaster / Of The 1921 / RACE RIOT]. The back cover of the magazine is an advertisement for Sears, Roebuck, and Company. The magazine has forty interior pages with articles and advertisements, black-and-white photographs, color photographs, and graphics. On page two is the magazine’s masthead, printed in black text in a red box along the left edge of the page.

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