Representative Don Ross standing behind four unidentified women seated at a table, 1900 - 2010
Curatorial Remarks
Tulsans gathered at the Oklahoma State Capitol for a luncheon acknowledging the teenage pages from across the state. Also in attendance was Booker T. Washington High School when the basketball team won state title. Wayman Tisdale, as a student at BTW was also attendance. Tisdale would later have a successful colligate sports career, but later would have a successful career in both National Basketball Association, and music as well.
People: Wayman Tisdale, Augusta Mann, State Representative Don Ross, Shirley Scoggins, Senator Maxine Cissel-Horner, Tennessee Perryman
Places: Oklahoma State Capitol, Blue Room, Oklahoma City Oklahoma
Purpose: luncheon acknowledging the teenage pages, Booker T. Washington High School becoming State Champions
Community Elder Tags: luncheon, teenage pages, food boxes, name stickers, striped tie, blue blazer, eyeglasses, eating lunch, red cups, cross pendant on chain, smiles, walking cane, red, grey, blue, bow, conversation, talking, red lipstick
Kavin Ross, Community Expert for the Eddie Faye Gates project, 2020-2022
Community Elder Tags: large white bow, red dress, name tags on people, grey and black coat, photo with black legislator, green and white wall, lunch boxes, Pepsi can, red plastic cups, wooden table
Montecella Driver, Community Expert for the Eddie Faye Gates project, 2020-2022
Community Youth Tags: African American female authors, Eddie Faye Gates book, They Came Searching, social gathering, patterned lunchboxes, Pepsi cans, red Solo cups, blue suit set, black ribbon dress, red faux feather dress, gray silk dress, blue dress with white collar, fluffy black and gray coat, gray bob hairstyle, black updo hairstyle, brown afro hairstyle, gray curly hairstyle, four African American women
LeQuincia Brown, Community Expert for the Eddie Faye Gates project, 2020-2022
Dates
- 1900 - 2010
Extent
1 Photographic Prints : Color; print is stuck to scrapbook insert page
Language of Materials
English
Credit Line
Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa, OK, teacher, author, community activist
Previous Number 1
TL2019.20
- African American female authors
- American
- Augusta Mann
- Blue Room
- Booker T Washington High School becoming State Champions
- Eddie Faye Gates books
- Oklahoma City Oklahoma
- Oklahoma State Capitol
- Pepsi can
- Pepsi cans
- Photograph
- Representative Don Ross
- Ross, Donald R., United States Representative (Oklahoma) (Depicted)
- Senator Maxine Horner
- Shirley Scoggins
- Shirlie Scoggins
- State Representative Don Ross
- Tennessee Perryman
- The Eddie Faye Gates Tulsa Race Massacre Collection
- They Came Searching
- Tulsa Oklahoma
- Wayman Tisdale
- black ribbon dress
- black updo hairstyle
- blue
- blue blazer
- blue dress with white collar
- blue suit set
- bow
- brown afro hairstyle
- commemoration
- conversation
- cross pendant on chain
- eating lunch
- eyeglasses
- fluffy black and gray coat
- food boxes
- four African American women
- gray bob hairstyle
- gray curly hairstyle
- gray silk dress
- green and white wall
- grey
- grey and black coat
- historical reference
- large white bow
- lunch boxes
- luncheon
- luncheon acknowledging the teenage pages
- name stickers
- name tags on people
- patterned lunchboxes
- photo with black legislator
- red
- red Solo cups
- red cups
- red dress
- red faux feather dress
- red lipstick
- red plastic cups
- smiles
- social gathering
- striped tie
- talking
- teenage pages
- walking cane
- wooden table
Repository Details
Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository
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