Omaha's Riot in Story & Pictures (1919)

Title: Omaha's Riot in Story & Pictures (1919)
Description: This series of photographs document the race riot in Omaha that culminated in the lynching of Will Brown in front of the Douglas County Courthouse. In the first, as many as 20,000 people gather outside an already damaged courthouse. In the second, white rioters smile around the remains of the police car they set ablaze. And in the third, federal troops guard the intersection of 24th and Lake streets, an area with a large number of Black homes and businesses.
Date: 1919-09-28
Legal Concept: Extralegal Violence; Racialized Violence; Race
Subject: African Americans; Incarcerated People
Spatial Coverage: Nebraska; Midwest
Document Type: Image
Document Category: Primary Source
Archival Source: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library.
Bibliographic Citation: Omaha's Riot in Story & Pictures. Educational Publishing Company, 1919.
Digital Repository: New York Public Library Digital Collections
URL: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/c2d43f70-c6b3-012f-3bf8-58d385a7bc34
Contributor: Kaci Nash

Item sets: More Than a Snapshot: Will Brown's Lynching and the Violence of History

Title: Omaha's Riot in Story & Pictures (1919)
Description: This series of photographs document the race riot in Omaha that culminated in the lynching of Will Brown in front of the Douglas County Courthouse. In the first, as many as 20,000 people gather outside an already damaged courthouse. In the second, white rioters smile around the remains of the police car they set ablaze. And in the third, federal troops guard the intersection of 24th and Lake streets, an area with a large number of Black homes and businesses.
Date: 1919-09-28
Legal Concept: Extralegal Violence; Racialized Violence; Race
Subject: African Americans; Incarcerated People
Spatial Coverage: Nebraska; Midwest
Document Type: Image
Document Category: Primary Source
Archival Source: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library.
Bibliographic Citation: Omaha's Riot in Story & Pictures. Educational Publishing Company, 1919.
Digital Repository: New York Public Library Digital Collections
URL: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/c2d43f70-c6b3-012f-3bf8-58d385a7bc34
Contributor: Kaci Nash

Item sets: More Than a Snapshot: Will Brown's Lynching and the Violence of History

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