Jewel Smitherman Rogers, undated
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Turner, Reginald
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content: Guide to 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Oral History Collection
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.A2014.240, Series 11
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content: Archival materials
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content: Jewel Smitherman Rogers was born June 12, 1917 in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the Greenwood District. During the Race Massacre, the family home was burned to the ground. Rogers was self-employed working as a Tax Preparer. She served as a plaintiff in the court case, Alexander, et al., v. Oklahoma, et al. in 2003. She died on March 7, 2010 in Perris, California.