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Collection: The Eddie Faye Gates Tulsa Race Massacre Collection

784 Items

Two unidentified individuals with Senator Maxine Horner, at the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Sonny Gray and Bryndle Gray at the Greenwood Jazz Festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Wess Young, Sr., a Tulsa Race Massacre survivor, standing in front of his home in Brady Heights

Eddie Faye Gatees at Edison High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma wearing 1950s Tuskegee Institute, Alabama clothes; Copy 2 of 3

Eddie Faye Gates giving the keynote speech at the Young Authors Conference for Middle School at Rogers University, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Ashley and Adrian President, grandchildren of Eddie Faye Gates, on trip to Tulsa; Copy 1 of 3

Eddie Faye Gates in Paris, France

Eddie Faye Gates with unidentified person in Oakland, California

Eddie Faye Gates at the National Alliance of Black School Educators convention at the Loew's Anatole Hotel, in Dallas, Texas

Unidentified people at the Education workshop at the Tulsa Metropolitan Ministries Racism Conference, at the Downtown Doubletree Hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Alfred Stanley Dennie, of Tulsa, with the JAP Allen's Cotton Club Orchestra in Kansas City, Missouri

Judge Hubert Bryant

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

The National Black Legislative Caucus 1987 Planning Youth Conference, Tulsa Press Club; Copy 1 of 5

James Steward holding "sacred" brick used to break window during riot so the Steward family could escape their burning home

An unidentified man and five unidentified women

Steven (15) and Michelle (3) in Los Angeles

Johnnie Cochran, massacre survivor Otis Granville Clark, and Eddie Faye Gates, obscured in background, with lawyer, Dr. Charles Ogletree on the right

Representative Al Green with Eddie Faye Gates, an unidentified individual and Representative Bobby Lee Rush, is mostly off-camera on the lower right, in Washington, District of Columbia

Eddie Faye Gates presenting her book "Miz Lucy's Cookies" at the Tulsa Centennial celebration