Eddie Faye Gates with then Senator Barack Hussein Obama, holding Gate's book "Riot on Greenwood", with an unidentified man in the background reading a paper; Copy 2 of 5, 2005
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
- 2005
Extent
1 Photographic Prints : Color; Leaf 45
Language of Materials
English
Credit Line
Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa, OK, teacher, author, community activist
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Previous #: 4328.10434a
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TL2019.20
Repository Details
Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository
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