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DCI People: Thelma Thurman Knight

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A group photo of Tulsa Race Massacre survivors in front of United States Capitol Building, Washington, District of Columbia, Copy 4 of 6 Eddie Faye Gates American 4328.10953
Tulsa Race Massacre survivors Otis Granville Clark, Thelma Thurman Knight, Wess Young, Sr. standing in front of Representative Maxine Waters, standing behind Waters is Mary N. Elliott, a descendant of Tulsa Race Massacre survivors, and lawyer Dr. Charles Charles J. Ogletree, Maxine Moore Waters American 4328.10984
Tulsa Race Massacre survivors Otis Granville Clark, Thelma Thurman Knight, Wess Young, Sr. standing in front of Representative Maxine Waters, standing behind Waters is Mary N. Elliott, a descendant of Tulsa Race Massacre survivors, and lawyer Dr. Charles Charles J. Ogletree, Maxine Moore Waters American 4328.10986
Survivors Otis Granville Clark and Thelma Thurman Knight waiting to board American Airlines to the United States Supreme Court in Washington, District of Columbia American 4328.10524
Dr. Scott Ellsworth, Representative Maxine Waters, Ralph Knight, the son of survivor Thelma Thurman Knight, and Eddie Faye Gates in Washington, District of Columbia; Copy 4 of 7 Scott Ellsworth, Maxine Moore Waters, Eddie Faye Gates American 4328.11039
Survivors Wess Young, Sr., Otis Granville Clark, and Thelma Thurman Knight on their way to the United States Supreme Court in Washington, District of Columbia American 4328.10523
Then Senator Barack Obama meeting the Tulsa Race Massacre survivor group who are in the Senate building Barack Hussein Obama American 4328.10535
Representative Melvin "Mel" Luther Watt, survivor Thelma Thurman Knight, and Representative Sheila Jackson Lee Melvin "Mel" L. Watt American 4328.10543
Tulsa Race Massacre survivor, Thelma Thurman Knight American 4327.10500
An obscured individual, an unidentified woman, survivors Wess Young, Sr., Otis Granville Clark, and Thelma Thurman Knight, (all seated) with Raymond Knight, Eddie Faye Gates, and Representative Melvin "Mel" Luther Watt, and Representative Sheila Jackson L Melvin "Mel" L. Watt, Eddie Faye Gates American 4328.10547
Otis Granville Clark, Eddie Faye Gates, Wess Young, Sr., Thelma Thurman Knight and other massacre survivors at the boarding gate for American Airlines to go to the United States Supreme Court in Washington, District of Columbia Eddie Faye Gates American 4328.10526
Survivors Otis Granville Clark, Thelma Thurman Knight, and Wess Young, Sr., posing for a photo American 4328.10553
Survivor Thelma Thurman Knight in the law office of Michael Hausfeld, 1 of 19 lawyers for the Tulsa Race Massacre Reparations lawsuit American 4328.10533
Survivors Wess Young, Sr., Thelma Thurman Knight, Eddie Faye Gates, Otis Granville Clark, and an unidentified woman in Washington, District of Columbia Eddie Faye Gates American 4328.10561
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 American 4328.10541
Unidentified individuals surrounding survivors Genevieve Tillman-Jackson, and Wess Young, Sr., both seated, with Raymond Knight and Dorothy Tillman, civil rights activist, standing, at Congress in Washington, District of Columbia Dorothy Jean Tillman American 4328.10889
Karen Jackson Simpson and survivors Genevieve Tillman-Jackson, Thelma Thurman Knight, and Otis Granville Clark, with an unidentified woman in Washington, District of Columbia American 4328.10891
Survivors Raymond Knight, Thelma Thurman Knight, Otis Granville Clark, Raymond Holloway, and Wess Young, Sr., waiting on their bus near statue in Congress in Washington, District of Columbia American 4328.10551
Survivors Thelma Thurman Knight and Otis Granville Clark on a bus in Washington, District of Columbia American 4328.10552