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Two unidentified individuals at a North Tulsa Black Professional Women's Club meeting at the Gates' home in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Eddie Faye Gates and Karen Pettigrew at a Black Professional Women's Club meeting posing for the "Facts, Food, and Fashions Around The World" skit

Johnnie Cochran, the leading lawyer in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 lawsuit, Eddie Faye Gates, and her son, Kevin Jerome Gates in Tulsa, OK; Copy 5 of 5

Eddie Faye Gates with then Senator Barack Hussein Obama, holding Gate's book "Riot on Greenwood", with an unidentified man in the background reading a paper; Copy 5 of 5

Unidentified McClain High School cheerleaders at the Operation Outreach "At-Rise" retreat, Our Lady of the Osages, Tulsa, Oklahoma

North Tulsa Oral History Project. Includes interviews with Jobie Elizabeth Holderness, Alfred Barnett, Thelma Whitlow, Ernie Fields, Pocahontas Greadington, Thelma DeEtta Perryman Gray, and Fannie Hill.

Two unidentified women standing next to a car

Older woman holding a baby, seated between two unidentified men

Mildred Peevyhouse Williams standing between floral arrangements

Lloyd H. Williams, Jr. and family with award plaque

Four unidentified people in formal dress

Henry Cisneros, former San Antonio, Texas Mayor and keynote luncheon speaker at the 1991 Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry Racism Conference, held at the downtown Doubletree Hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma

An unidentified man at community meeting on Tulsa Race Massacre; Copy 2 of 2

Eddie Faye Gates in the office of Representative John James Conyers Jr.

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 3 of 7

The Congressional Gold Medal awarded in 2003 to Dr. Dorothy Irene Height by Congress and President George W. Bush

Survivors Wess Young, Sr., Thelma Thurman Knight, Eddie Faye Gates, Otis Granville Clark, and an unidentified woman in Washington, District of Columbia

Willie Peevyhouse Davis (Walters) seated on front porch

Four unidentified, elderly people; two woman standing on either side of a man in a plaid bathrobe seated in a wheelchair with another man standing behind him in a suit

Unidentified young man standing in a studio with his right arm resting on the back of an ornate chair, wearing formal suit with knickerbockers