Program for a 90th birthday celebration for Juanita Smith Booker

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Digital copy of a 90th birthday celebration program for Juanita Smith Booker, a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre. The program is printed in black ink on a single sheet of pink paper, folded once to form four pages. The cover page features a black and white image of Booker and the text [Celebration of Life / In Honor of / Juanita Smith Booker] above the image and the time, date, and location of the celebration below the image. The birthday celebration took place at the Church of the Living God on January 31, 2004. The left-side page of the interior of the program has a three-paragraph announcement of Booker's 90th birthday celebration with family, which took place on January 15, 2004. The announcement details her birthday celebration with family including a reflection on "her life from the early years in Tulsa to recalling the turbulent days following the Tulsa Race Riot.

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