Digital image of Tulsa Race Massacre survivors with Dorothy Height
date: label: Date
content: March 8, 2005
name: label: Photograph by
content: Dianne D. Gates-Anderson
label: Subject of
content: Thelma Knight, 1915 - 2009
label: Subject of
content: Eddie Faye Gates, American, 1934 - 2021
label: Subject of
content: Dorothy Irene Height, American, 1912 - 2010
label: Subject of
content: Wess Young Sr., 1917 - 2014
label: Subject of
content: Otis Clark, 1903 - 2012
label: Subject of
content: Genevieve Tillman-Jackson, 1915 - 2007
label: Subject of
content: Robert Holloway, 1918 - 2010
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Woman or Women
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Man or Men
label: Owned by
content: Eddie Faye Gates, American, 1934 - 2021
notes: label: Description
content: Digital image of a photograph of a group of Tulsa Race Massacre survivors and their supporters with activist Dorothy Height. Group includes the Harvard students and faculty involved in delivering the petition for review in support of a reparations claim to the Supreme Court of the United States. Survivors Thelma Knight, Wess Young Sr., Otis Clark, and Robert Holloway stand behind Dorothy Height, who is seated and wears a green hat and dress with a pearl necklace. Seated to the right of Height is Genevieve Tillman-Jackson, wearing a champagne pink coat and holding a red blanket over her legs. Knight wears a black fur hat and vivid blue jacket. Young Sr. wears a tan jacket over a button-down shirt with vertical stripes, and Clark wears a gray suit with tie and holds his hat in his left hand. All three wear the Oklahoma Medal of Distinction on green ribbon. Holloway wears a red ballcap and tan overcoat. Behind them is Eddie Faye Gates in a green jacket. On image of back at bottom right, handwritten in blue ink is [TRR 1921 Group and / Harvard U. group (fac. / + students) get to / right bldg - House of Rep, / and meet Dorothy Height / March 8, 2005]. A repeating watermark on the back reads [FUJIFILM / Fujicolor CrystalArchive / Paper].
place: label: Place captured
content: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
label: Place depicted
content: Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: American West
label: Topic
content: Economics
label: Topic
content: Justice
label: Topic
content: Law
label: Topic
content: Local and regional
label: Topic
content: Race relations
label: Topic
content: Tulsa Race Massacre
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 2001-
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Eddie Faye Gates Collection, Tulsa, Oklahoma
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa OK, author, historian, community activist
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.117.34
objectType: label: Type
content: portraits
label: Type
content: digital images
label: Type
content: digital media - born analog
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Dianne D. Gates-Anderson
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: digital
label: Dimensions
content: File size (overall): 32.34 MB