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The Tulsa Race Massacre group, Thelma Thurman Knight, Wess Young, Sr., Otis Granville Clark, Genevieve Tillman-Jackson, and Robert Holloway, with Eddie Faye Gates, and a group of Harvard University faculty and students are in the House of Representatives
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Ten individuals in Washington, District of Columbia, pictured left to right: an unidentified man, Representative Al Green, two obscured individuals, Karen Jackson Simpson, survivors Genevieve Tillman-Jackson and Wess Young, Sr. (seated), Raymond Knight, a
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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

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Appears that the survivors are being honored in Congressional Hall.

People: Eddie Faye Gate, Otis Clark, U.S Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, Representative of North Carolina Melvin Watts
Places: Washington D.C.

Community Elder Tags: hanging lamp, wooden background, survivors seated, U.S. Representative, Asian lady

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

Community Youth Tags: navy suit, yellow tie, grey suit, silver tie, peach suit, blue jacket, red coat, black scarf, black dress, pink jacket, wooden wall, lamp, medals, glasses, red lipstick

Iana Redman, Community Expert for the Eddie Faye Gates project, 2020-2022

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Title(s): 
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
Creator(s): 
Melvin "Mel" L. Watt Watt (Subject)
Eddie Faye Gates Gates (Subject)
Culture: 
American
Date: 
March 8, 2005
Classification: 
Photographs
Object Type: 
Photograph
Credit Line: 
Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa, OK, teacher, author, community activist
Accession No: 
4328.10547
Previous Number(s): 
TL2019.20
Department: 
Archive
Collection: 
The Eddie Faye Gates Tulsa Race Massacre Collection
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