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Santee's research and tracking of anti-abortion causes led her to collect and produce a significant number of items related to the Tulsa Race Riot, the rise of right-wing extremism, and Ku Klux Klan activity in the 1990s and 2000s.

These materials are housed together as a separate series for the convenience of patrons who are solely interested in Race Riot and Klan materials.

Scope and Contents A Postcard showing an unidentified man lying between some tracks and a fence. Another man stands behind him, and shadows indicate several others just outside the image. This same body appears in 4 photographs (1989.004.5.15, 1989.004.5.54, 1989.004.5.s9 1989.004.5.S11). Based on correlating information from these images, the body was lying along the north side of the main Frisco tracks, just west of Cincinnatti Ave.Title is taken from the writing on the face of the postcard....

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A postcard taken from a photograph taken from the Tulsa Pressed Brick Co. looking southeast towards Dunbar ELementary School. The ruins of the African Methodist Episcopal Church are between.

Title is taken from the writing on the face of the postcard. Digital image has been modified from the original for clarity.

The photographer is unidentified. The Postcards were first published in 1921.

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A Postcard showing an image taken from the roof of Booker T. Washington High School, looking south towards downtown. The ruins of the Stradford Building #2 (507 N. Elgin) are on the right.

Title is taken from the writing on the face of the postcard. Digital image has been modified from the original for clarity.

The photographer is unidentified. The Postcards were first published in 1921.

Scope and Contents Minutes of the Meeting of the Tulsa Race Riot Commission Meeting at the Greenwood Cultural Center on June, 18, 1998 at the Greenwood Cultural Center. Topics discussed include memorialization and the Repentance Rally, oral history research with survivors, plans to create reproductions of the district before 1921, efforts to establish the number of victims (which inlcuded some of the earliest discussions of mass graves), research on property losses, and strategies to publicize the findings,...

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This photo on this postcard was taken from on top of the Santa Fe Freight office at 1st St. and Elgin Ave., showing the fires on Archer towards Greenwood. The Goodner-Malone company (1 N. Frankfurt Ave.) building is in the center of the photo.

Title is taken from the writing on the face of the Postcard. Digital image has been modified from the original for clarity.

The photographer is unidentified. The Postcards were first published in 1921.

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A postcard showing a man lying dead in the street, with a sheet, or piece of paper covering his face. This victim appears in a number of photographs in this collection, taken from different angles at different times of the morning.

Title is taken from the writing on the face of the postcard. Digital image has been modified from the original for clarity.

The Postcards were first published in 1921.

Scope and Contents A postcard showing the scene from the roof of the Hotel Tulsa on 3rd St. between Boston Ave. and Cincinnati Ave.. The first row of buildings is along 2nd St. The smoke cloud on the left (Cincinnati Ave. and the Frisco Tracks) is identified in the Tulsa Tribune version of this photo as being where the fire started.Title is taken from the writing on the face of the postcard. Digital image has been modified from the original for clarity.The photographer is unidentified....

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A postcard showing a truck parked in front of the Convention Hall. One man lies on the bed of the truck, either wounded or dead, while two others sit to either side. A man in civilian attire stands guard over them.

Title is taken from the writing on the face of the postcard. Digital image has been modified from the original for clarity.

The Postcards were first published in 1921.

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Printed from the History Matters website. A reproduction of the text of a report by Walter White, an NAACP official who traveled to Tulsa to survey the damage caused by the riot. Originally published in the Nation in the summer of 1921.