Karlos K. Hill · The Public Domain Review · 2021
Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921
On the evening of May 31, 1921, several thousand white citizens and authorities began to violently attack the prosperous Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Why we picked it
Hill examines photographs not merely as records of racial violence but as contested objects that can reproduce white supremacy or preserve Black resilience.
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