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Eddie Faye Gates with Reverend Benjamin Hooks at the 75th Commemoration of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, held at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Eddie Faye Gates

Survivors Wess Young, Sr., (mostly off camera on the left), Raymond Knight, and Otis Granville Clark, with Eddie Faye Gates, an unidentified man, and Representative Melvin "Mel" Luther Watt

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People: Eddie Faye Gates, Otis Clark, Representative Mel Watts, Wess Young
Places: Washington D.C, Congressional Hall

Community Elder Tags: black man in gold tie, black man with green medal, white man with gold tie, wooden wall, drapes, orange background, hanging lamp

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


Community Youth Tags: yellow tie, gray hair, gray suit jackets, chandelier, red lipstick, glasses, tribal necklace

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

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Title(s): 
Survivors Wess Young, Sr., (mostly off camera on the left), Raymond Knight, and Otis Granville Clark, with Eddie Faye Gates, an unidentified man, and Representative Melvin "Mel" Luther Watt
Creator(s): 
Melvin "Mel" L. Watt Watt (Subject)
Eddie Faye Gates Gates (Subject)
Culture: 
American
Date: 
March 8, 2005
Classification: 
Object Type: 
Credit Line: 
Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa, OK, teacher, author, community activist
Accession No: 
4328.10548
Previous Number(s): 
TL2019.20
Department: 
Not On View

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