Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 Photographs
A gentleman who lived and worked in Tulsa during the time of the race riot took the photographs below. The daughter of the Tulsa worker later donated the photos to the African-American Resource Center.
 The newly built Mount Zion Baptist Church engulfed in smoke. |
 Members of the black community witness their neighborhood being destroyed. |
Men ordered to the detention centers.
Nearly 80 years later, the Greenwood district is home to several businesses. The rebirth of the Greenwood District is a tribute to the African-American men and women who accomplished the unimaginable. Despite the blatant inequalities in the separate but equal United States, their vision and entrepreneurial spirit increased. That spirit is the legacy that continues to inspire and invigorate Tulsa's black community today. Pictured below are photographs of Greenwood's business district today and Mount Zion Baptist Church that was dedicated on Sunday, Oct. 21, 1952.
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