Digital image of Tulsa Race Massacre survivors with Dorothy Height

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Digital image of a photograph of a group of Tulsa Race Massacre survivors and their supporters with activist Dorothy Height. Group includes the Harvard students and faculty involved in delivering the petition for review in support of a reparations claim to the Supreme Court of the United States. Survivors Thelma Knight, Wess Young Sr., Otis Clark, and Robert Holloway stand behind Dorothy Height, who is seated and wears a green hat and dress with a pearl necklace. Seated to the right of Height is Genevieve Tillman-Jackson, wearing a champagne pink coat and holding a red blanket over her legs. Knight wears a black fur hat and vivid blue jacket. Young Sr. wears a tan jacket over a button-down shirt with vertical stripes, and Clark wears a gray suit with tie and holds his hat in his left hand. All three wear the Oklahoma Medal of Distinction on green ribbon.

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