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Representative Don Ross standing behind four unidentified women seated at a table

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Tulsans gathered at the Oklahoma State Capitol for a luncheon acknowledging the teenage pages from across the state. Also in attendance was Booker T. Washington High School when the basketball team won state title. Wayman Tisdale, as a student at BTW was also attendance. Tisdale would later have a successful colligate sports career, but later would have a successful career in both National Basketball Association, and music as well.

People: Wayman Tisdale, Augusta Mann, State Representative Don Ross, Shirley Scoggins, Senator Maxine Cissel-Horner, Tennessee Perryman
Places: Oklahoma State Capitol, Blue Room, Oklahoma City Oklahoma
Purpose: luncheon acknowledging the teenage pages, Booker T. Washington High School becoming State Champions

Community Elder Tags: luncheon, teenage pages, food boxes, name stickers, striped tie, blue blazer, eyeglasses, eating lunch, red cups, cross pendant on chain, smiles, walking cane, red, grey, blue, bow, conversation, talking, red lipstick

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


Community Elder Tags: large white bow, red dress, name tags on people, grey and black coat, photo with black legislator, green and white wall, lunch boxes, Pepsi can, red plastic cups, wooden table

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


Community Youth Tags: African American female authors, Eddie Faye Gates book, They Came Searching, social gathering, patterned lunchboxes, Pepsi cans, red Solo cups, blue suit set, black ribbon dress, red faux feather dress, gray silk dress, blue dress with white collar, fluffy black and gray coat, gray bob hairstyle, black updo hairstyle, brown afro hairstyle, gray curly hairstyle, four African American women

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

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Title(s): 
Representative Don Ross standing behind four unidentified women seated at a table
Culture: 
American
Date: 
1900 - 2010
Classification: 
Object Type: 
Credit Line: 
Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa, OK, teacher, author, community activist
Accession No: 
4327.10607
Previous Number(s): 
TL2019.20
Department: 
Not On View

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