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Eddie Faye Gates with Michael Eric Dyson at the Rudisill Regional Library of the Tulsa City-County Library System in Tulsa, Oklahoma; photo taken by Barbara L. Eiknen

Eddie Faye Gates with musician and Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Hal "Cornbread" Singer in Paris, France

Scope and Content Notes

Inscribed by hand in blue ink, "Grandma-Eddie Faye Gates and HAL SINGER Paris, France Tulsa Race Riot 1921 Survivor Hal Singer (jazz musician, see Cox Cable, Jazz channel- June 2006 Hal playing his big hit song "Cornbread" on his saxophone" on verso, Printed in black ink, "1490 20060704 thank you!!! 328" in center vertical on verso Printed in black ink, "Kodak PAPER" and Kodak Paper logo repeating on verso;

Curatorial Remarks

People: Eddie Faye Gates, Hal Singer

Community Elder Tags: male and female, lamp in background, male reading papers, blue suit, stripped grey and white shirt, green stripped shirt, wooden furniture, floral carpet

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


Community Youth Tags: newspaper, holding hands, sunglasses, red lipstick, stripped shirts, tribal bracelet, silver watch, green chair

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

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Title(s): 
Eddie Faye Gates with musician and Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Hal "Cornbread" Singer in Paris, France
Creator(s): 
Eddie Faye Gates Gates (Subject)
Harold "Hal" Joseph Singer Singer (Subject)
Culture: 
American
Date: 
June 2006
Classification: 
Object Type: 
Credit Line: 
Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa, OK, teacher, author, community activist
Accession No: 
4378.10483
Previous Number(s): 
TL2019.20
Department: 
Not On View

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