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Collection: The Eddie Faye Gates Tulsa Race Massacre Collection

787 Items

Eddie Faye Gates and Karen Pettigrew at a Black Professional Women's Club meeting posing for the "Facts, Food, and Fashions Around The World" skit

Johnnie Cochran, the leading lawyer in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 lawsuit, Eddie Faye Gates, and her son, Kevin Jerome Gates in Tulsa, OK; Copy 5 of 5

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 5 of 5

Unidentified McClain High School cheerleaders at the Operation Outreach "At-Rise" retreat, Our Lady of the Osages, Tulsa, Oklahoma

North Tulsa Oral History Project. Includes interviews with Jobie Elizabeth Holderness, Alfred Barnett, Thelma Whitlow, Ernie Fields, Pocahontas Greadington, Thelma DeEtta Perryman Gray, and Fannie Hill.

Three unidentified people standing in front of trees next to a building

Unidentified young girl in yellow and white floral dress with braided pigtails

Mildred Peevyhouse Williams, copy 1 of 2

Unidentified man and woman in formal dress

Two unidentified children and unidentified woman standing in a kitchen

Two unidentified women with Eddie Faye Gates at a First Wednesday Reading Club meeting

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 4 of 5

Eddie Faye Gates, with Tulsa Race Massacre survivors Samuel Walker and his wife, and daughter, Joyce Walker Hill in Kansas City, Missouri

Dr. Melvin Todd with Eddie Faye Gates at a Ralph Ellison book review in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Survivors Anita and Robert Holloway, Thelma Thurman Knight, Raymond Knight, and Wess Young, Sr., being welcomed as guest of the United States Congress in Washington, District of Columbia

Survivors Raymond Knight and Otis Granville Clark at a fancy dinner in Washington, District of Columbia

Willie Peevyhouse Davis (Walters) seated on front porch

Four unidentified, elderly people; two woman standing on either side of a man in a plaid bathrobe seated in a wheelchair with another man standing behind him in a suit

Unidentified young man standing in a studio with his right arm resting on the back of an ornate chair, wearing formal suit with knickerbockers

Derek Gates, a Tulsa engineer, and lawyer Adjoa Aiyetoro with Eddie Faye Gates at a meeting for the June 2002 lawsuit vs. Tulsa Airport