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Representative Maxine Waters, standing with Eddie Faye Gates holding her book "Riot on Greenwood" while visiting the capitol, Washington, District of Columbia; Copy 2 of 5
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Representative Maxine Waters, standing with Eddie Faye Gates holding her book "Riot on Greenwood" while visiting the capitol, Washington, District of Columbia; Copy 1 of 5
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Dr. Scott Ellsworth, Representative Maxine Waters, Ralph Knight, the son of survivor Thelma Thurman Knight, and Eddie Faye Gates in Washington, District of Columbia; Copy 4 of 7

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Massacre Survivors met with many members of congress to give testimony of what they had suffered in Tulsa as children in 1921.

People: Dr. Scott Ellsworth, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Thurman McKnight, Eddie Faye Gates
Places: Washington D.C.,
Purpose: Massacre Survivors meeting with Congress

Community Elder Tags: green jacket, rhino necklace, scarf, notepad, pen, flat cap, hat, red lipstick, beige blazer, suit, black hair, smiling, glasses

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

People: Ellsworth taking notes.

Community Elder Tags: wooden walls

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

Community Youth Tags: Eddie Faye Gates, March 20 2005, Greenwood Reparations Committee, committee meeting, African style necklace, white man with a patterned blue tie, old blue and brown sculbture

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

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Title(s): 
Dr. Scott Ellsworth, Representative Maxine Waters, Ralph Knight, the son of survivor Thelma Thurman Knight, and Eddie Faye Gates in Washington, District of Columbia; Copy 4 of 7
Creator(s): 
Scott Ellsworth Ellsworth (Subject)
Maxine Moore Waters Waters (Subject)
Eddie Faye Gates Gates (Subject)
Culture: 
American
Date: 
2005
Classification: 
Photographs
Object Type: 
Photograph
Credit Line: 
Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa, OK, teacher, author, community activist
Accession No: 
4328.11039
Previous Number(s): 
Previous #: 4328.10447c; TL2019.20
Department: 
Archive
Collection: 
The Eddie Faye Gates Tulsa Race Massacre Collection
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