Unidentified individual with Eddie Faye Gates at the dedication ceremony of John Hope Franklin Boulevard in Tulsa, Oklahoma, December 5, 1997
Scope and Contents
Inscribed by hand in blue ink, "John Hope Franklin Blvd. Dedication" in center on verso; Inscribed by hand in blue ink, "12-5-1997" in bottom center on verso; Printed in black ink, "
This event was the dedication of the John Hope Franklin Boulevard bridges hat stretches the historically all Black Greenwood District journeyed west through the historically all White Brady Heights District, two communities that were once separated by race. John Hope Franklin, along with Tulsa massacre survivor, Mabel B. Little. Dignitaries on hand were State Rep. Don Ross, Dorothy DeWitty, Ed Lacy, Sharon King Davis, and Scott Ellsworth.
People: Principal Stevens, Eddie Faye Gates,
Places: North Hall, Rogers University/OSU-Tulsa
Purpose: Dedication of John Hope Franklin Boulevard
Community Elder Tags: Principal Stevenson Booker T. Washington High School, Eddie Faye Gates.
Kavin Ross, Community Expert for the Eddie Faye Gates project, 2020-2022
People: Eddie Faye Gates
Places: Tulsa Oklahoma, OSU Tulsa
Purpose: Naming of John Hope Franklin Boulevard Ceremony
Community Elder Tags: poster, black man standing near Mrs. Gates, blue suit, man in hounds tooth print suit, yellow plant outside window, inside brick building, microphone, podium, room faces outside area
Montecella Driver, Community Expert for the Eddie Faye Gates project, 2020-2022
Community Youth Tags: White microphone, black cat eyed glasses, red lipstick, windows, grey walls, white walls, Black and white suit jacket, maroon suit shirt, wooden bench, wooden stand, orange leaves on trees, blue suit jacket, black shirt
Iana Redman, Community Expert for the Eddie Faye Gates project, 2020-2022
Dates
- December 5, 1997
Access Restrictions
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Extent
1 Photographic Prints : Color
Language of Materials
English
Credit Line
Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa, OK, teacher, author, community activist
Previous Number 1
TL2019.20
- American
- Dedication of John Hope Franklin Boulevard
- Eddie Faye Gates
- Franklin, John Hope (Associated name)
- Gates, Eddie Faye, February 05, 1934–December 09, 2021 (Depicted)
- John Franklin Boulevard
- John Hope Franklin
- John Hope Franklin Boulevard. Tulsa, Oklahoma (Depicted)
- Naming of John Hope Franklin Boulevard Ceremony
- North Hall
- Oklahoma State University-Tulsa
- Photograph
- Principal Stevenson
- Rogers University
- The Eddie Faye Gates Tulsa Race Massacre Collection
- Tulsa
- black and white suit jacket
- black cat eyed glasses
- black man standing near Mrs. Gates
- black shirts
- blue suit
- blue suit jacket
- grey walls
- inside brick building
- man in hounds tooth print suit
- maroon suit shirt
- microphones -- microphone
- orange leaves on trees
- podiums -- podium
- posters -- poster
- red lipstick
- room faces outside area
- white microphone
- white walls
- windows -- window
- wooden bench
- wooden stand
- yellow plant outside window
Repository Details
Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository
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