Red Photo Album, 1900 - 2010
Scope and Contents
Sub-series is comprised of 80 photographs from a red covered photo album. Dates range from the 1920s to 2008. The photographs consist of portraits and snapshots of various survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre and descendants of survivors, photographs from Eddie Faye Gates' trip to the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., the 75th Riot Commemoration Program at Mt. Zion Baptist Church gymnasium in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and two scrapbook pages of miscellaneous people. Notable people are Cathryn Bell Snoddy, Mary Bell Arrington, Otis Granville Clark, Genevieve Tillman Jackson, Useni Eugene Perkins, Alfred Stanley Dennie, JAP Allen's Cotton Club Orchestra, Ernie Fields, Straw-hat-John Quenton Brown, Joe Louis, Clarence Love, Jo Pearl Jarrett, unidentified Perryman family members, Hugh and Naomi Hollins, Dr. John Hope Franklin, Robert Fairchild, Thelma Harrison, Reverend B.S. Roberts, Waldo Jones, Sr., Reverend Billy Jarrett, Reverend Benjamin Harrison Hill, Pocohontas Greadington, Judge Hubert Bryant, Dr. Charles Bate, Kevin Jerome Gates (son of Eddie Faye), Johnnie Cochran, Eldoris Mae McCondichie, Mildred Peevyhouse Williams, Delois Vaden Ramsey, Thelma Thurman Knight, Roanna Henry McClure, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Representative Maxine Waters, Dr. Charles Ogletree, Jr., Dr. Olivia Hooker, Senator Barack Obama, Wess Young, Sr., Robert and Anita Holloway, Otis Granville Clark, Jean Ficklin, Mary N. Elliot, Ralph Knight, Hal "Cornbread" Singer, Dr. Scott Ellsworth, James Steward, Kimberly Ellis, Hannibal Johnson, Ken Hollis, Rose Kennedy, and Norman Gates.
Dates
- Creation: 1900 - 2010
Access Restrictions
The Eddie Faye Gates collection is open for research. Restrictions pertaining to the use of these materials may apply based on copyright and/or licensing. All collection materials, including those not online, may be accessed in-person in the Maxine and Jack Zarrow Reading Room at the Helmerich Center for American Research. Please submit a Request to Conduct Research form to schedule a research visit. For all other inquiries, please contact hcarlibrary@utulsa.edu.
Full Extent
80 Photographic Prints : Consists of 80 leafs with a single photograph per leaf, showing both recto and verso.
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Previous Number 1
TL2019.20
Subject
- Mt. Zion Baptist Church (Depicted, Organization)
- Snoddy, Cathryn D. (Depicted, Person)
- Arrington, Mary Bell (Depicted, Person)
- Clark, Otis Granville (Depicted, Person)
- Tillman-Jackson, Genevieve (Depicted, Person)
- Perkins, Useni Eugene (Depicted, Person)
- Dennie, Alfred Stanley (Depicted, Person)
- Jap Allen's Cotton Club Orchestra (Depicted, Organization)
- Ernie Fields Orchestra (Depicted, Organization)
- Fields, Ernie, Sr. (Depicted, Person)
- Louis, Joe (Depicted, Person)
- Love, Clarence (Depicted, Person)
- Jarrett, Jo (Depicted, Person)
- Hollins, Hugh (Depicted, Person)
- Hollins, Naomi (Depicted, Person)
- Franklin, John Hope (Depicted, Person)
- Fairchild, Robert (Depicted, Person)
- Harrison, Thelma (Depicted, Person)
- Roberts, B. S., Reverend (Depicted, Person)
- Jones, Waldo, Sr. (Depicted, Person)
- Jarrett, Billy (Depicted, Person)
- Hill, Benjamin, Reverend (Depicted, Person)
- Greadington, Pocahontas (Depicted, Person)
- Bryant, Hubert H., Judge, January 4, 1931–December 25, 2016 (Depicted, Person)
- Bate, Charles James, Dr. (Depicted, Person)
- Gates, Kevin (Depicted, Person)
- Cochran, Johnnie Lee, Jr. (Depicted, Person)
- McCondichie, Eldoris Mae Ector (Depicted, Person)
- Peevyhouse Williams, Mildred (Depicted, Person)
- Ramsey, DeLois Vaden (Depicted, Person)
- Knight, Thelma J. "Mama Knight" Thurman (Depicted, Person)
- McClure, Roanna Henry (Depicted, Person)
- Jackson, Jesse Louis, Jr., Illinois State Representative, October 8, 1941– February 17, 2026 (Depicted, Person)
- Waters, Maxine Moore, United States Representative (California), b. August 15, 1938 (Depicted, Person)
- Ogletree, Charles J., Jr., Dr. (Depicted, Person)
- Hooker, Olivia Juliette, Ph.D. (Depicted, Person)
- Obama, Barack Hussein, II, 44th U.S. President, b. August 4, 1961 (Depicted, Person)
- Young, Wessley "Wess" Hubert, Sr. (Depicted, Person)
- Holloway, Anita Scott (Depicted, Person)
- Holloway, Robert, Jr. (Depicted, Person)
- Ficklin, Jean (Depicted, Person)
- Elliot, Mary (Depicted, Person)
- Knight, Ralph, Jr. (Depicted, Person)
- Singer, Harold "Hal" Joseph (Depicted, Person)
- Ellsworth, Scott, Dr. (Depicted, Person)
- Steward, James L. (Depicted, Person)
- Hollis, Ken (Depicted, Person)
- Hollis, Rose (Kennedy) (Depicted, Person)
- Gates, Norman (Depicted, Person)
- Johnson, Hannibal B. (Depicted, Person)
- Gates, Eddie Faye, February 05, 1934–December 09, 2021 (Depicted, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository