Smoke rises from buildings during the race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921. Tulsa was the site of one of the country’s bloodiest outbreaks of racist violence in 1921, when white mobs attacked Black citizens and businesses with guns and explosives dropped from airplanes. Alvin C. Krupnick Co./NAACP Records/Library of Congress #history

Police leading women to patrol cars in the Harlem area of New York, on Aug. 2, 1943, during clashes with police following the shooting of a policeman and six civilians. The unrest was sparked by the shooting of Robert Bandy, a black soldier, by a white policeman. #history