Local author, advocate of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre dies

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TULSA, Okla. — Eddie Faye Gates, an writer and section advocator for the Greenwood community, passed distant connected Dec. 9, 2021. She was 87.

Gates is astir well-known for the stories she collected of families successful Greenwood and publishing astir the impacts the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre had connected Tulsa.

According to the Victory of Greenwood's website, Gates taught astatine Tulsa Public Schools for 22 years.

She aboriginal became an writer aft retiring from teaching. Some of her published works see They Came Searching: How Blacks Sought the Promised Land successful Tulsa successful 1997 and Riot connected Greenwood: The Total Destruction of Black Wall Street successful 2003.

In 1998, Gates became seat of the Survivors Committee of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot Commission. One of Gates' goals for the committee was to cod the stories of much than 200 survivors of the Race Massacre, arsenic good arsenic accusation from their descendants.

She helped place 136 of the 200 survivors which she interviewed. Her work, including testimonies and different records, is honored astatine Gilcrease Museum successful the Eddie Faye Gates Tulsa Race Massacre Collection.

"She was a teacher, a storyteller, a champion for her community, and an inspiration to many," says the Victory of Greenwood radical connected Facebook. "We can't convey you enough, Mrs. Gates. Our prayers contiguous are with your children and family."

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