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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
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A group of unidentified individuals at a Tulsa Reparations Committee Meeting, with Eddie Faye Gates, and Johnnie Cochran, leading reparations lawyer
Eddie Faye Gates

A group of unidentified individuals at a Tulsa Reparations Committee Meeting, with Eddie Faye Gates, Mark Stodghill, the chair of the Tulsa Reparations Committee, and Johnnie Cochran, leading reparations lawyer

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In February 2003, Mrs. Gates joined a group of attorneys, massacre survivors, and Tulsans for a press conference after a lawsuit was filed in federal court on behalf of the survivors from the Tulsa Massacre 1921.

People: Eddie Faye Gates, Johnie Cochran
Places: Greenwood Cultural Center
Purpose: Press conference

Community Elder Tags: massacre survivors, lawsuit against the city, February 2003

Kavin Ross, Community Expert for the Eddie Faye Gates project, 2020-2022


Community Elder Tags: glass windows, pen on table, plaques on wall, plant, camera man

Montecella Driver, Community Expert for the Eddie Faye Gates project, 2020-2022


Community Youth Tags: meeting room, cameras, film crew, video recording, conference, media and press, Tulsa events

LeQuincia Brown, Community Expert for the Eddie Faye Gates project, 2020-2022

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Title(s): 
A group of unidentified individuals at a Tulsa Reparations Committee Meeting, with Eddie Faye Gates, Mark Stodghill, the chair of the Tulsa Reparations Committee, and Johnnie Cochran, leading reparations lawyer
Creator(s): 
Eddie Faye Gates Gates (Subject)
Johnnie Lee Cochran Cochran (Subject)
Culture: 
American
Date: 
1900 - 2010
Classification: 
Object Type: 
Credit Line: 
Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa, OK, teacher, author, community activist
Accession No: 
4327.10511
Previous Number(s): 
TL2019.20
Department: 
Not On View

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