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Collection: The Eddie Faye Gates Tulsa Race Massacre Collection

Image Title Creator Culture Accession # Materials/Techniques
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, Michael Eric Dyson American 4328.10571
Eddie Faye Gates with musician and Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Hal "Cornbread" Singer, in Paris, France; Copy 3 of 4 Eddie Faye Gates, Harold "Hal" Joseph Singer American 4378.11021
Johnnie Cochran standing at the head of a long table of people, Eddie Faye Gates seated on the right at a meeting at the Supreme Court building, in Washington, District of Columbia; Copy 2 of 2 Johnnie Lee Cochran, Eddie Faye Gates American 4328.10975
Three unidentified individuals at the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma Greenwood Cultural Center American 4327.10817
Unidentified young boy in striped shirt American 4327.10353
Salute to Congressman George Thomas "Mickey" Leland; pictured is Alice Raines, mother of Mickey Leland, Eddie Faye Gates, and Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, at the National Alliance of Black School Educators convention at Loew's Anatole Hotel, in D National Alliance of Black School Educators, George Thomas "Mickey" Leland, Eddie Faye Gates, Eddie Bernice Johnson American 4327.10674
Dorothy Irene Height, a renowned Black female activist with Dr. Charles Ogletree at the United States House of Representatives in Washington, District of Columbia Dorothy Height, Charles J. Ogletree American 4328.10538
Cleo Peevyhouse Phillips at The May Company in Denver, Colorado American 4327.10404
Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Lucy V. Johnson Higgs in California American 4337.10494
Dr. Scott Ellsworth, Tulsa Race Massacre 1921 advisor, Representative Maxine Waters, Ralph Knight, the son of massacre survivor Thelma Thurman Knight, and Eddie Faye Gates in Washington, District of Columbia; Copy 1 of 7 Scott Ellsworth, Maxine Moore Waters, Eddie Faye Gates American 4328.10987
The Duke Ellington Orchestra, performing on stage in Tulsa, Oklahoma Duke Ellington Orchestra American 4327.10646
Mildred Peevyhouse Williams standing with James Hewgley, campaigning for Congress American 4327.10302
Three month old, Fauntleroy II, of Kansas with his parents at the Henry Cisneros Luncheon at the Tulsa Metropolitan Ministries Racism Conference, at the Downtown Doubletree Hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma Henry Gabriel Cisneros American 4327.10690
Survivors posing with the waiter; pictured left to right are Raymond Knight, Thelma Thurman Knight, an unidentified waiter, Otis Granville Clark, Eddie Faye Gates, Wess Young, Sr., and Robert Holloway at a fancy restraunt in Washington, District of Columb Eddie Faye Gates American 4328.10565
Cleo Petit Peevyhouse (Phillips) and unidentified man American 4327.10421
Unidentified train on train tracks Unidentified American 4327.10520
Eddie Faye Gates signing her book for an unidentified woman Eddie Faye Gates American 4328.10599
Two unidenitifed older men in formal dress American 4327.10319.004
Eddie Faye Gates and Tulsa Race Massacre survivors, Otis Granville Clark, Genevieve Tillman (Jackson), and playwright for "If We Must Die" in Chicago, Illinois, Useni Eugene Perkins, at Greenwood Cultural Center Panel Discussion Useni Eugene Perkins, Eddie Faye Gates American 4328.10362
An unidentified Duke Ellington Orchestra singer performing on stage in Tulsa, Oklahoma Duke Ellington Orchestra American 4327.10645