Beck, Essie Lee Johnson
Person
Dates
- Existence: April 29, 1915 - March 6, 2006
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Blue Photo Album, 1973 - 2008
Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6
Scope and Contents
Sub-series is comprised of 160 photographs from a blue covered photo album. Dates range from 1973 to approximately 2008. The photographs consist of portraits and snapshots of various survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, photographs from Eddie Faye Gates' trip to the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., and various events attended by Eddie Faye Gates, like the 1990 Human Rights Seminar in Tulsa, the 1991 Tulsa Metropolitan Ministries Racism Conference, The National Black Legislative...
Dates:
1973 - 2008
Ernestine Gibbs, of California and a massacre survivor, lawyer Adjoa Aiyetoro, Essie Beck, massacre survivor, and Eddie Faye Gates, and Mrs. Beck's son, February 9, 2003
Item — Box: 6
Identifier: 4328.10518
Scope and Contents
Inscribed by hand in blue ink, "L TO R. Ernestine Gibbs, 100, S. [underlined], CA. NCOBRA lawyer Adjoa Aiyetoro, Essie Beck, S. [underlined], EFG, OK Comm to Study TRR 1921, Mrs. Beck's son 2-9-2003" on left on verso; Printed in black ink, "029 NA 0ANA0N NNN 0 9943
Dates:
February 9, 2003
Ernestine Gibbs, of California and a massacre survivor, lawyer Adjoa Aiyetoro, Essie Beck, massacre survivor, and Eddie Faye Gates, and Mrs. Beck's son, February 9, 2003
Item — Box: 6
Identifier: 4328.10519
Scope and Contents
Inscribed by hand in blue ink, "L TO R. Ernestine Gibbs, 100, S. [underlined], CA. NCOBRA lawyer Adjoa Aiyetoro, Essie Beck, S. [underlined], EFG, OK Comm to Study TRR 1921, Mrs. Beck's son 2-9-2003" on left on verso; Printed in black ink, "028 NA 0ANA0N NNN 0 9943 Curatorial Remarks Massacre survivors Ernestine Gibbs, and Essie Beck, along with her son, are having a conversation with a representative Attorney Adjoa...
Dates:
February 9, 2003
Ernestine Gibbs, of California and a massacre survivor, lawyer Adjoa Aiyetoro, Essie Beck, massacre survivor, and Eddie Faye Gates; Copy 1 of 2, February 9, 2003
Item — Box: 6
Identifier: 4328.11031
Scope and Contents
Inscribed by hand in blue ink, "L TO R. Ernestine Gibbs, 100, S. [underlined], CA. NCOBRA lawyer Adjoa Aiyetoro, Essie Beck, S. [underlined], EFG, OK Comm to Study TRR 1921 2-9-2003" on left on verso; Printed in black ink, "033 NA 0ANA0N NNN 0 9943
Dates:
February 9, 2003
Ernestine Gibbs, of California and a massacre survivor, lawyer Adjoa Aiyetoro, Essie Beck, massacre survivor, and Eddie Faye Gates; Copy 2 of 2, February 9, 2003
Item — Box: 6
Identifier: 4328.11032
Scope and Contents
Inscribed by hand in blue ink, "L TO R. Ernestine Gibbs, 100, S. [underlined], CA. NCOBRA lawyer Adjoa Aiyetoro, Essie Beck, S. [underlined], EFG, OK Comm to Study TRR 1921 2-9-2003" on left on verso; Printed in black ink, "034 NA 0ANA0N NNN 0 9943
Dates:
February 9, 2003
Photograph taken by Mrs. P. Telford of Eddie Faye Gates, holding her book "Miz Lucy's Cookies", with Mr. Booker, and Essie J. Beck at Steve's Bookstore, 1900 - 2010
Item — Box: 6
Identifier: 4327.10502
Scope and Contents
Inscribed by hand in black ink, "Photo By Mrs. P. Telford" in top left corner on verso; Inscribed by hand in blue ink, "#43" in top center on verso; Inscribed by hand in blue ink, "Steve's Bookstore" in upper right on verso; Inscribed by hand in black ink, "Mrs Beck Mr Booker Mrs Galis" on verso; Inscribed by hand in red ink, "[underlining "Mrs Beck" and "Mr Booker" with arrow and "deceased" written for both] in...
Dates:
1900 - 2010
"Survivors' Stories". Includes continuation of the interview by Eddie Faye Gates and an unidentified male of Essie Lee Johnson Beck, Tulsa Race Massacre survivor, conducted for the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, with photograph montage of Greenwood., late 20th century
Item — Box: 17
Identifier: 5327.1697
Dates:
late 20th century
"Survivors' Stories." Index card enclosed in tape cover reads: Ed. 9-28-1999. Tape II - 27. Phineas Bell, 28. Juanita Arnold, 29. Essie Beck., September 28, 1999
Item — Box: 17
Identifier: 5327.1689
Dates:
September 28, 1999
Additional filters:
- Subject
- American 8
- The Eddie Faye Gates Tulsa Race Massacre Collection 8
- Photograph 5
- Essie Beck 3
- VHS 3
- Videos 3
- Adjoa Aiyetoro 2
- Eddie Faye Gates 2
- Ernestine Gibbs 2
- Tulsa 2
- 1100 N Lansing 1
- 1935 graduate 1
- 1st grade 1
- 30 blocks 1
- 300 deaths 1
- 3rd and Boston 1
- 500 Jasper Place 1
- 8 years old 1
- African garments 1
- August 24 1999 1
- B.C. Franklin 1
- Bell Chapel school 1
- Dunbar 1
- Eddie has arm wrapped around a man 1
- Ford Model T 1
- Golden Gate Park 1
- Grandfather's store 1
- Jackson Memorial 1
- Japanese reparations 1
- Juanita Delores Burnett Arnold 1
- Kinney Booker 1
- Ku Klux Klan -- KKK 1
- Lake Michigan 1
- Laney Bell 1
- Lonnie and Rosella Bell parents 1
- Los Angeles Race Riot -- LA race riot 1
- Native American reparations 1
- Okemah 1
- Okfuskee (county) 1
- Oklahoma 1
- Oklahoma State Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 1
- Phineas Bell 1
- Pine Street to Midland Street 1
- Red Bird 1
- Red Cross 1
- Rosita Bell 1
- Taft 1
- Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921 1
- Tulsa events in February 1
- airplanes -- airplane -- planes -- plane -- aeroplanes -- aeroplane 1
- airplanes dropping things 1
- ash (residue) -- ashes 1
- attorney 1
- became a teacher 1
- black lamp 1
- boy scout 1
- brothers and sisters with mom 1
- brown jacket 1
- burning -- burnt -- burned 1
- canes (walking sticks) -- cane 1
- ceiling fans -- ceiling fan 1
- church school 1
- church would not burn 1
- completed through 5th grade 1
- convention centers -- convention center -- conference centers -- conference facilities -- convention facilities -- convention halls 1
- conversations -- conversation 1
- crying and running 1
- did not understand 1
- difficulties getting lumber 1
- drummers -- drummer -- drum players 1
- drummers protected grandfathers store and home 1
- eight years old 1
- elderly black man in plaid shirt 1
- elderly black people 1
- evening -- evenings 1
- eyeglasses -- glasses 1
- family in one tent 1
- farming -- agriculture -- agricultural 1
- father helped soldiers 1
- father returned 1
- fire 1
- fireplaces -- fireplace 1
- five children 1
- five years old 1
- fled early in the morning 1
- floral bouquets -- floral bouquet 1
- floral rug 1
- folding cots 1
- food -- foods -- foodstuff 1
- four siblings 1
- grandfather died in 1934 1
- grandfather stayed at home 1
- gray pinstripe suit 1
- green blazer 1
- grocery stores -- grocery store 1
- gunshots 1
- hated white people 1
- hiding -- hidden 1
- hiding behind trees 1
- hiding in the attic 1 ∧ less
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