"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
Dates
- May 7 - September 28, 1999
Creator
- Ross, J. Kavin (James Kavin Ross ) (Videographer, Person)
Access Restrictions
The Eddie Faye Gates collection is open for research. Restrictions pertaining to the use of these materials may apply based on copyright and/or licensing. All collection materials, including those not online, may be accessed in-person in the Maxine and Jack Zarrow Reading Room at the Helmerich Center for American Research. Please submit a Request to Conduct Research form to schedule a research visit. For all other inquiries, please contact hcarlibrary@utulsa.edu.
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 N Lansing
- 1935 graduate
- 1st grade
- 30 blocks
- 300 deaths
- 3rd and Boston
- 500 Jasper Place
- 8 years old
- American
- Arnold, Juanita Delores Burnett (Interviewee)
- August 24 1999
- B.C. Franklin
- Beck, Essie Lee Johnson (Interviewee)
- Bell Chapel school
- Bell, Phineas (Interviewee)
- Booker, Kinney Ibis (Interviewee)
- 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 -- KKK
- Lake Michigan
- Laney Bell
- Lonnie and Rosella Bell parents
- Los Angeles Race Riot -- LA race riot
- McCondichie, Eldoris Mae Ector (Interviewee)
- Native American reparations
- Okemah
- Okfuskee (county)
- Oklahoma
- Phineas Bell
- Pine Street to Midland Street
- Red Bird
- Red Cross
- Rollerson, Myrtle (Interviewee)
- Rosita Bell
- Taft
- The Eddie Faye Gates Tulsa Race Massacre Collection
- Tulsa
- VHS
- Videos
- airplanes -- airplane -- planes -- plane -- aeroplanes -- aeroplane
- airplanes dropping things
- ash (residue) -- ashes
- became a teacher
- black lamp
- boy scout
- brothers and sisters with mom
- brown jacket
- burning -- burnt -- burned
- canes (walking sticks) -- cane
- church school
- church would not burn
- completed through 5th grade
- convention centers -- convention center -- conference centers -- conference facilities -- convention facilities -- convention halls
- crying and running
- did not understand
- difficulties getting lumber
- drummers -- drummer -- drum players
- drummers protected grandfathers store and home
- eight years old
- elderly black man in plaid shirt
- evening -- evenings
- family in one tent
- farming -- agriculture -- agricultural
- father helped soldiers
- father returned
- fire
- fireplaces -- fireplace
- five children
- five years old
- fled early in the morning
- floral rug
- folding cots
- food -- foods -- foodstuff
- four siblings
- grandfather died in 1934
- grandfather stayed at home
- gray pinstripe suit
- green blazer
- grocery stores -- grocery store
- gunshots
- hated white people
- hiding -- hidden
- hiding behind trees
- hiding in the attic
- high school band
- holding hands
- home burned
- homeless persons -- homeless person -- homeless people -- unhoused people
- homes on fire
- lawyer Franklin
- lived in Okemah
- lived in a tent during winter
- loans -- loan
- 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 massacre survivors
- ran in groups
- refused lumber
- reparations
- rings (finger jewelry) -- ring -- finger rings
- scared
- schools -- school
- shooting
- sitting -- seated
- 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 -- tent
- top of hill
- two people
- variety stores -- variety store
- walking
- watching planes drop things on roofs
- white flowers
- white hair
- white man cursing outside house
- white polo
- white trim
- wholesale orders
- window blinds -- window blind -- blinds (window coverings)
- 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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