Thelma Knight, 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 12
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content: Thelma Knight was born May 30, 1915 in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the Greenwood District. During the Race massacre, the family was forced to flee their home and live in Newblock Park in a tent. When they returned, their family home was destroyed. Knight was the first African American elevator attendant at Renberg's department store in Tulsa. Knight served as a plaintiff in the court case, Alexander, et al., v. Oklahoma, et al. in 2003. She died in July 2009 in Dallas, Texas.