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Johnnie Cochran, the leading lawyer in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 lawsuit, Eddie Faye Gates, and her son, Kevin Jerome Gates in Tulsa, OK; Copy 4 of 5, 2001

 Item — Box: 6
Identifier: 4328.11003

Scope and Contents

From the Sub-Series:

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 Caucus 1987 Planning Youth Conference at the Tulsa Press Club, the 1990 National Alliance of Black School Educators Convention, a Tulsa Reparations Commission meeting, the 75th Commemoration of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre held at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, and the Tulsa Centennial celebration. From the rear pocket of the photo album there were several strips of photo negatives. There are also several photographs that are duplicated here, that appear elsewhere in the collection. Notable people in these photos are Dr. Scott Ellsworth, Representative Maxine Waters, Thelma Thurman Knight and her son Ralph Knight, Raymond Knight, Otis Granville Clark, Robert and Anita Holloway, Wess Young, Sr., Dianne Gates-Anderson, Senator Barack Obama, Dr. Olivia Hooker, Dr. Charles Ogletree, Jr., Mary N. Elliott, Genevieve Tillman-Jackson and her daughter Karen Jackson-Simpson, Representative Al Green, Representative Bobby Lee Rush, Representative Melvin "Mel" Luther Watt, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, Dorothy Tillman, Dorothy Irene Height, Otis Autry, Gwen Taylor, Dorothy DeWitty, Dr. Cecelia Nails Palmer, Representative Don Ross, Reverend Andrew Young, Ruford Henderson, Michael Eric Dyson, Brenda Perry, Johnnie P. Stevenson, Elise Pierce of People Magazine, Ernestine Gibbs, lawyer Adjoa Aiyetoro, Essie J.Beck, Mildred Evit Wilburn, Johnnie Cochran, Alice Higgs Lollis, Johnnette Mitchell, Mabelline Mitchell Jackson, Dr. Melvin Todd, Mildred Clark, Mrs. Jeanette Bradshaw, Effie Todd, Johnnie Grayson Brown, Louie Barton Williams, Beatrice Lucille Campbell Webster, Celestine Daniels, Mrs. Clotie Wright, Carrie Cudjoe, William Harold and Cledie Lee Woods, Lucy V. Johnson Higgs, Roanna McClure, Samuel Walker and daughter Joyce Walker Hill, Cecil White and son Hamasi White, Lois Taylor, Hal "Cornbread" Singer, Michael Rosenbaum senior producer of 60 Minutes II, Michael Reed, Milton Goodwin, Eddie Faye Gates' grandchildren Ashley and Adrian President, Ken Hollis, Rose Kennedy, Verneice Dunn Sims, Eddie Faye Gates' son Kevin Jerome Gates, Dr. William McLain, Mayor Henry Cisneros, Superintendent Jimmy Scales, Director of the United States Commission on Civil Rights Arthur Fletcher, Reverend Benjamin Hooks, and Evelyn Lawson, Millard house, Jenru Bandeh, Erica Jones, LaTasha Mayberry, and Tracye Taylor of Tulsa Public Schools.

Dates

  • 2001

Extent

1 Photographic Prints : Color; Leaf 11 (Original Album position on Page 3 , front pocket, top slot)

Language of Materials

English

Credit Line

Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa, OK, teacher, author, community activist

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Repository Details

Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository

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