"Survivors' Stories." Includes eight interviews of Tulsa Race Massacre survivors and heirs conducted for the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Interview one is by Eddie Faye Gates and unidentified interviewer with Phiness Bell. Interview two is by Eddie Faye Gates and unidentified interviewer with Juanita Delores Burnett Arnold. Interview three is by Eddie Faye Gates and unidentified interviewer with Essie Lee Johnson Beck. Interview four is by unidentified interviewer and Eddie Faye Gates with Kinney Booker. Interview five is by unidentified interviewer with Eldoris Mae Ector McCondichie. Interview six is by Eddie Faye Gates with Jobie Holderness, Tulsa Race Massacre heir. Interview seven is by Eddie Faye Gates and unidentified interviewer with Eunice Jackson. Interview eight is by Eddie Faye Gates with Myrtle Rollerson, Tulsa Race Massacre heir., May 7 - September 28, 1999
Item — Box: 17
Identifier: 5327.1685
Dates
- May 7 - September 28, 1999
Creator
- Ross, J. Kavin (James Kavin Ross ) (Videographer, Person)
Extent
1 videocassettes : Videocassette label reads: Survivor Stories 3. Videocassette cover label reads: 3. Phineas Bell, Juanita Arnold, Essie Beck, Kinney Booker, KC Star, Eldoris McCondichie, Jobie Holderness (heir), Eunice Jackson, Myrtle Rollerson (heir), Beulah Smith Part 1
Language of Materials
English
Credit Line
Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa, OK, teacher, author, community activist
Previous Number 1
TL2019.20
- 1100 North Lansing
- 1935 graduate
- 1st grade
- 30 blocks
- 300 deaths
- 3rd and Boston
- 500 Jasper Place
- 500 Jasper Place
- 8 years old
- American
- Arnold, Juanita Delores Burnett (Interviewee)
- August 24th 1999
- B.C. Franklin
- Beck, Essie Lee Johnson (Interviewee)
- Bell's Chapel in Okemah
- Bell, Phineas (Interviewee)
- Bells Chapel school
- Booker, Kinney Ibis (Interviewee)
- Dorothy
- Drummers
- Dunbar
- Essie Beck
- Ford model T
- Gates, Eddie Faye (Interviewer)
- Golden Gate Park
- Grandfather's store
- Holderness, Jobie Elizabeth (Interviewee)
- Jackson Memorial
- Jackson, Eunice (Interviewee)
- Japanese reparations
- Juanita Delores Burnett Arnold
- Kinney Booker
- Ku Klux Klan
- LA Race Riot
- Lake Michigan
- Laney Bell
- Lonnie and Rosella Bell parents
- Los Angeles Race Riot
- McCondichie, Eldoris Mae Ector (Interviewee)
- Native American reparations
- Okemah
- Okfusgee County
- Okfuskee county
- Oklahoma -- OK
- Oklahoma -- OK
- Phineas Bell
- Phiness Bell
- Phiness returned to Tulsa 1939
- Pine Street to Midland Street
- Red Bird Oklahoma
- Red Cross
- Rollerson, Myrtle (Interviewee)
- Rosita Bell
- Taft Oklahoma
- The Eddie Faye Gates Tulsa Race Massacre Collection
- Tulsa Oklahoma
- Tulsa Race Massacre survivor
- VHS
- Videos
- airplanes
- airplanes
- airplanes dropping things
- ashes
- became a teacher
- black lamp
- blinds
- boy scout
- brothers and sisters with mom
- brown jacket
- burned
- cane
- church school
- church would not burn
- completed through 5th grade
- convention hall
- crying and running
- did not understand
- difficulties getting lumber
- drummers
- drummers protected grandfathers store and home
- eight years old
- elderly Black man in plaid shirt
- evening time
- family in one tent
- farmwork
- father helped soldiers
- father returned
- fire
- fireplace
- five children
- five years old
- fled early in the morning
- floral rug
- folding cots
- food
- four siblings
- golden gate park
- grandfather died in 1934
- grandfather owned a store
- grandfather stayed at home
- gray pinstripe suit
- green blazer
- grocery store
- gunshots
- hated white people
- hiding
- hiding behind trees
- hiding in the attic
- high school band
- holding hands
- home burned
- homeless
- homes on fire
- lawyer Franklin
- lived in Okemah
- lived in a tent during winter
- loans
- lobby reception
- lost everything
- lost everything in the riot
- lumber rights
- mother died in 1929
- mother grabbed them
- mother helped an elderly woman leave
- mother returned
- moved to the country
- never got used to it
- never overcame the hurt
- never saw the house again
- new ambulances
- no financial help
- no money
- north
- out in yard playing with brother
- parents didn't want their children talking about the riots
- patterned button up
- race riot survivor
- ran in groups
- refused lumber
- reparations
- rings
- scared
- school
- seated
- shooting
- smoke
- spent a night in a school room
- started at night
- started rebuilding the house
- stayed away from the windows
- stayed in Booker T. Washington
- stayed in a supply shelter for two nights
- taking men to detention places
- tents
- top of hill
- two people
- variety store
- walking
- watching planes drop things on roofs
- white flowers
- white hair
- white man cursing outside house
- white polo
- white trim
- wholesale orders
- witnessed 2 race riots
- ‚"Kenny is the world on fire?"
Creator
- Ross, J. Kavin (James Kavin Ross ) (Videographer, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research Repository
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