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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

Curatorial Remarks

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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