Willie Peevyhouse Davis (Walters) seated on front porch
Eddie Faye Gates, the education award recipient, with Dr. William McLain, of Washington, District of Columbia and Alabama born, at the 1991 Tulsa Metropolitan Ministries Racism Conference, held at the downtown Doubletree Hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Representative Don Ross standing behind four unidentified women seated at a table
Gilcrease Museum
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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
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
