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DCI People: Wess Young

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Otis Granville Clark, Eddie Faye Gates, Wess Young, Sr., Thelma Thurman Knight and other massacre survivors at the boarding gate for American Airlines to go to the United States Supreme Court in Washington, District of Columbia Eddie Faye Gates American 4328.10526
Survivors Wess Young, Sr., Otis Granville Clark, and Thelma Thurman Knight on their way to the United States Supreme Court in Washington, District of Columbia American 4328.10523
Eddie Faye Gates with the Tulsa Race Massacre survivors and others(pictured left to right, Wess Young, Sr., Raymond Knight behind Mr. Young standing next to an unidentified delivery driver, Thelma Thurman Knight, Otis Granville Clark, Genevieve Tillman-Ja Eddie Faye Gates American 4328.10527
Tulsa Race Massacre survivor group at the Washington, District of Columbia law office American 4328.10534
Unidentified man talking to survivor Wess Young, Sr., in Washington, District of Columbia American 4328.10531
Then Senator Barack Obama meeting the Tulsa Race Massacre survivor group who are in the Senate building Barack Hussein Obama American 4328.10535
The Tulsa Race Massacre group, Thelma Thurman Knight, Wess Young, Sr., Otis Granville Clark, Genevieve Tillman-Jackson, and Robert Holloway, with Eddie Faye Gates, and a group of Harvard University faculty and students are in the House of Representatives Dorothy Height American 4328.10539
Otis Granville Clark, Anita and Robert Holloway, Eddie Faye Gates, and Thelma Thurman Knight on a transit from the Senate to the House of Representatives in the Supreme Court in Washington, District of Columbia Eddie Faye Gates American 4328.10536
An obscured individual, an unidentified woman, survivors Wess Young, Sr., Otis Granville Clark, and Thelma Thurman Knight, (all seated) with Raymond Knight, Eddie Faye Gates, and Representative Melvin "Mel" Luther Watt, and Representative Sheila Jackson L Melvin "Mel" L. Watt, Eddie Faye Gates American 4328.10547
Survivors Anita and Robert Holloway, Thelma Thurman Knight, Raymond Knight, and Wess Young, Sr., being welcomed as guest of the United States Congress in Washington, District of Columbia American 4328.10541
Survivors Otis Granville Clark, Thelma Thurman Knight, and Wess Young, Sr., posing for a photo American 4328.10553
Eight individuals in Washington, District of Columbia, from left to right pictured are three unidentified individuals, Representative Maxine Waters, Dorothy Tillman, civil rights activist, Raymond Knight, and seated are Wess Young, Sr. and Eddie Faye Gate Maxine Moore Waters, Dorothy Jean Tillman, Eddie Faye Gates American 4328.10542
Survivors Wess Young, Sr., Thelma Thurman Knight, Eddie Faye Gates, Otis Granville Clark, and an unidentified woman in Washington, District of Columbia Eddie Faye Gates American 4328.10561
Ten individuals in Washington, District of Columbia, pictured left to right: an unidentified man, Representative Al Green, two obscured individuals, Karen Jackson Simpson, survivors Genevieve Tillman-Jackson and Wess Young, Sr. (seated), Raymond Knight, a Alexander "Al" N. Green, Bobby Lee Rush American 4328.10545
Survivors Wess Young, Sr., (mostly off camera on the left), Raymond Knight, and Otis Granville Clark, with Eddie Faye Gates, an unidentified man, and Representative Melvin "Mel" Luther Watt Melvin "Mel" L. Watt, Eddie Faye Gates American 4328.10548
Unidentified individuals surrounding survivors Genevieve Tillman-Jackson, and Wess Young, Sr., both seated, with Raymond Knight and Dorothy Tillman, civil rights activist, standing, at Congress in Washington, District of Columbia Dorothy Jean Tillman American 4328.10889
Survivors Raymond Knight, Thelma Thurman Knight, Otis Granville Clark, Raymond Holloway, and Wess Young, Sr., waiting on their bus near statue in Congress in Washington, District of Columbia American 4328.10551
Wess Young, Sr., a Tulsa Race Massacre survivor, standing in front of his home in Brady Heights American 4327.10589
Senator Barack Obama going down the stairs with massacre survivors Wess Young, Sr. and Otis Granville Clark, and Eddie Faye Gates; all in Washington, Dictrict of Columbia for reparations hearing; Copy 1 of 3 Barack Hussein Obama, Eddie Faye Gates American 4328.10965
Senator Barack Obama going down the stairs with massacre survivors Wess Young, Sr. and Otis Granville Clark, and Eddie Faye Gates; all in Washington, Dictrict of Columbia for reparations hearing; Copy 2 of 3 Barack Hussein Obama, Eddie Faye Gates American 4328.10966