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Digital image of Tulsa Race Massacre survivors before Supreme Court Building

2005

Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A digital image of a photograph of Tulsa Race Massacre survivors and advocates in front of the United States Supreme Court Building at a demonstration in support of reparations. Depicted from left to right are Dr. Olivia Hooker, Charles Ogletree Jr., Thelma Knight, Otis Clark, and Eddie Faye Gates. Robert Holloway is almost entirely out of frame at extreme left. Two additional individuals appear partially or obscured. Individuals are holding copies of a petition to the court; Eddie Faye Gates also holds a copy of her book, Riot on Greenwood: The Total Destruction of Black Wall Street. There is no image of the back of the original photograph.

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Catalog reference: 2014.117.58

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