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Injustice, Rage and Despair

Album Description

The Library of Congress houses digital access to many resources that chronicle race related injustice and unrest.  Images from Washington DC, 1968 and Tulsa Oklahoma 1921, both are part of that photographic record.

A study of the images in this album should garner many student questions and impact current understanding of ongoing tragic events. Further research by students can outline underlying causes that are contributors to injustice. And as educators it is our hope that they’ll be civic contributors to a better future.

Technical Teaching Notes - Students learning online often use their phones.  Research via the LOC Collections app allows for mobile research and identification of resources that they can carry in their pocket.

  Racial Injustice   Civic Unrest   Washington DC 1968    Tulsa Oklahoma 1921   bestof 

[Washington] D.C. Riot - aftermath - curfew

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017650259/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Leffler, Warren K., photographer
Created / Published: 1968 April 8.
Genre: Film negatives--1960-1970
Notes: -  Title and date from log book.
-  Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 18959, frame 13A.
-  Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ppmsca 53531 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.53531

D.C. riot. April '68. Aftermath / [WKL].

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2003688168/

Reference note

Summary: Photograph showing a soldier standing guard at 7th and N Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., with the ruins of buildings that were destroyed during the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)
Contributor Names: Leffler, Warren K., photographer
Created / Published: 1968 Apr. 8.
Subject Headings: -  African Americans--Civil rights--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
-  Race riots--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
-  Ruins--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
-  Debris--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
-  Soldiers--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
Genre: Film negatives--1960-1970
Notes: -  Title from contact sheet folder caption.
-  Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 18949, frame 12.
-  Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
-  Published in: "African Americans" chapter of the ebook Great Photographs from the Library of Congress, 2013.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ppmsca 04301 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.04301

D.C. riot. April '68. Aftermath

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2009632337/

Reference note

Summary: Photograph showing firefighters spraying water on shops, including Beyda's, Miles Shoes, and Graysons, that were burned during the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Contributor Names: Leffler, Warren K., photographer
Created / Published: 1968 April 8.
Subject Headings: -  African Americans--Civil rights--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
-  Race riots--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
-  Fire fighting--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
-  Stores & shops--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
Notes: -  Title from contact sheet folder caption.
-  U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
-  Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 18950, frame 23A.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ppmsca 19733 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19733

D.C. riot scenes- aftermath

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017646312/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Trikosko, Marion S., photographer
Created / Published: 1968 April 8.
Genre: Film negatives--1960-1970
Notes: -  Title and date from log book.
-  Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 18943, frame 24.
-  Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ppmsca 51591 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.51591

D.C. Riot- aftermath- curfew

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017646315/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Trikosko, Marion S., photographer
Created / Published: 1968 April 8.
Genre: Film negatives--1960-1970
Notes: -  Title and date from log book.
-  Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 18958, frame 4A.
-  Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ppmsca 51594 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.51594

Riot damage in D.C. / [WKL].

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2003654397/

Reference note

Summary: Photograph shows the ruins of a store in Washington, D.C., that was destroyed during the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Contributor Names: Leffler, Warren K., photographer
Created / Published: 1968 Apr. 16.
Subject Headings: -  African Americans--Civil rights--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
-  Race riots--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
-  Ruins--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
-  Debris--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
Notes: -  Title from contact sheet folder caption.
-  U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
-  Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 18989, frame 7A.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id: ds 00840 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.00840
ppmsca 03132 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.03132

D.C. Riot scenes in area of 14th-7th Sts. N.W., [Washington, D.C.]

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017650255/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Leffler, Warren K., photographer
Created / Published: 1968 April 8.
Genre: Film negatives--1960-1970
Notes: -  Title and date from log book.
-  Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 18949, frame 4.
-  Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ppmsca 53527 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.53527

D.C. Riot scenes in area of 14th-7th Sts. N.W., [Washington, D.C.]

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017650254/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Leffler, Warren K., photographer
Created / Published: 1968 April 8.
Genre: Film negatives--1960-1970
Notes: -  Title and date from log book.
-  Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 18947, frame 20A.
-  Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ppmsca 53526 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.53526

D.C. Riot scenes in area of 14th-7th Sts. N.W., [Washington, D.C.]

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017650250/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Leffler, Warren K., photographer
Created / Published: 1968 April 8.
Genre: Film negatives--1960-1970
Notes: -  Title and date from log book.
-  Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 18945, frame 3A.
-  Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ppmsca 53522 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.53522

D.C. riot aftermath -- food distributing center

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2009632336/

Reference note

Summary: Photograph showing African American men carrying supplies from a food distribution center at a church.
Contributor Names: Leffler, Warren K., photographer
Created / Published: 1968 April 8.
Subject Headings: -  African Americans--Civil rights--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
-  Race riots--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
-  Food relief--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
-  Churches--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
Notes: -  Title from contact sheet folder caption.
-  U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
-  Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 18953, frame 25A.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ppmsca 19732 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19732

[Washington] D.C. Riot - troops in front of U.S. Capitol

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017650256/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Leffler, Warren K., photographer
Created / Published: 1968 April 8.
Genre: Film negatives--1960-1970
Notes: -  Title and date from log book.
-  Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 18951, frame 7.
-  Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ppmsca 53528 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.53528

D.C. Riot scenes in area of 14th-7th Sts. N.W., [Washington, D.C.]

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017650252/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Leffler, Warren K., photographer
Created / Published: 1968 April 8.
Genre: Film negatives--1960-1970
Notes: -  Title and date from log book.
-  Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 18945, frame 33A.
-  Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ppmsca 53524 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.53524

D.C. Riot scenes in area of 14th-7th Sts. N.W., [Washington, D.C.]

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017650253/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Leffler, Warren K., photographer
Created / Published: 1968 April 8.
Genre: Film negatives--1960-1970
Notes: -  Title and date from log book.
-  Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 18947, frame 9A.
-  Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ppmsca 53525 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.53525

[Smoke rises near U.S. Capitol, during riot, 1968] / MST.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2011648319/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Trikosko, Marion S., photographer
Created / Published: 1968 April 6.
Subject Headings: -  United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--1960-1970
-  Race riots--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
-  Smoke--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
Notes: -  Title devised by Library staff.
-  Contact sheet folder caption: "D.C. Riot, April, '68: After curfew deserted streets in D.C. - Smoky sky w/capitol - damaged area, MST - 4-6-68."
-  U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
-  Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 18934, frame no. 14A/15.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id: ds 00838 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.00838

[Smoke billowing over Tulsa, Oklahoma during 1921 race riots]

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3a34286/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Alvin C. Krupnick Co., photographer
Created / Published: [1921]
Subject Headings: -  Race riots--Oklahoma--Tulsa--1920-1930
-  Tulsa (Okla.)--1920-1930
Genre: Photographic prints--1920-1930
Notes: -  Photo by Alvin C. Krupnick Co.
-  Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records.
-  Collection finding aid available.
Digital Id: cph 3a34286 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a34286

Part of district burned in race riots, Tulsa, Okla.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017679766/

Reference note

Created / Published: June 1921.
Subject Headings: -  American Red Cross
-  United States--Oklahoma--Tulsa
Genre: Glass negatives
Notes: -  Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
-  Date received: 26 January 1922.
-  Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Dis. Rel.
-  Data: Mr. Stuart, Feb. 1922. Classification: Disaster Relief.
-  Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
-  General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
-  Temp note: Batch 29
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: anrc 14744 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/anrc.14744

[Truck on street near Litan Hotel carrying soldiers and African Americans during Tulsa, Okla., race riot in 1921]

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/95517748/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Alvin C. Krupnick Co., photographer
Created / Published: [1921]
Subject Headings: -  Race riots--Oklahoma--Tulsa--1920-1930
Genre: Photographic prints--1920-1930
Notes: -  Photo by Alvin C. Krupnick Co.
-  Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records.
-  Collection finding aid available.
Digital Id: cph 3a52251 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a52251

Burning of church where ammunition was stored during race riot, Tulsa, Okla.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017679767/

Reference note

Created / Published: June 1, 1921.
Subject Headings: -  American Red Cross
-  United States--Oklahoma--Tulsa
Genre: Glass negatives
Notes: -  Caption from negative sleeve: Burning of church where ammunition was stored during Tulsa race riot.
-  Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
-  Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Dis. Rel.
-  Date received: January 26, 1922.
-  Data: Mr. Stuart, Feb. 1922. Classification: Disaster Relief.
-  Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
-  General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
-  Temp note: Batch 29
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: anrc 14745 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/anrc.14745

After the race riots June 1st, 1921, Tulsa, Okla.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017679759/

Reference note

Created / Published: June 1921.
Subject Headings: -  American Red Cross
-  United States--Oklahoma--Tulsa
Genre: Glass negatives
Notes: -  Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
-  Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Dis. Rel.
-  Date received: 26 January 1922.
-  Data: Mr. Stuart, Feb. 1922. Classification: Disaster Relief.
-  Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
-  General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
-  Temp note: Batch 29
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: anrc 14737 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/anrc.14737

[Tulsa, Oklahoma, race riot, June 1, 1921] / photo by Alvin C. Krupnick Co., Tulsa, Okla.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/91796047/

Reference note

Summary: Primarily crowd of African Americans; some standing in line next to Exchange booth.
Contributor Names: Alvin C. Krupnick Co., photographer
Created / Published: 1921.
Subject Headings: -  African Americans--Oklahoma--Tulsa--1920-1930
-  Riots--Oklahoma--Tulsa--1920-1930
-  Race relations--Oklahoma--Tulsa--1920-1930
Genre: Photographic prints--1920-1930
Notes: -  Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records.
Digital Id: cph 3c04478 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c04478