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Funeral program for John Wesley Williams

1939

Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America

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

A memorial program for the funeral service of John Wesley Williams, a businessman in Tulsa, Oklahoma and a survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The service was held at Vernon Chapel A.M.E. Church, and he was later interned at Crown Hill Cemetery. On the inside of the program, written vertically in the margin, is a list of names.

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Catalog reference: 2011.60.2

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