Library Speaker is Eddie Faye Gates
The speaker at the Grove Public Library's Third Thursday program on Aug. 17 is Eddie Faye Gates, a woman who has spoken to audiences in many places, but with the same purpose--to inform on the "Black Experience" and to promote peace, harmony, and justice.
Gates addresses the Third Thursday program at 12 noon. Everyone is invited. It is a brown bag lunch. Drinks and dessert are provided.
Gates brings a world of experience to her message. She was born a sharecropper's daughter In Okmulgee County, Okla. Her parents taught their eight children, two others died young, to work and learn. Graduating from Okmulgee's Dunbar High School in 1951, Gates was selected to attend Tuskegee Institute in Alabama where for three years she learned both in class and in activism. She and Norman Gates, who had received his B.S. degree and 2d lieutenant bars at Tuskegee two weeks earlier, married in 1954. Three months later Lt. Gates was called to active duty in the U.S. Air Force, and before long the new couple was living in London, England. Five children, 12 moves, a B.S. degree for Eddie Faye, and 14 years later, Gates left active duty and the family settled in Tulsa.
Eddie Faye began a 22-year career as a history teacher at Edison High School. She then became an administrator the Tulsa Public Schools. She was curriculum coordinator for social studies for all grades and was responsible for designing a curriculum that depicted the history, achievements and role models of all Americans. After retiring in 1992, Gates wrote her first two books. "Miz Lucy's Cookies: And Other Links in My Black Family Support System" is an autobiography. Next Gates wrote "They Came Searching: How Blacks Sought the Promised Land in Tulsa."
When the Oklahoma Legislature created the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, it should be no surprise that Eddie Faye Gates, historian and activist, was one of the eleven members. "Riot on Greenwood: The Total Destruction of Black Wall Street" was the book Gates wrote recording the accounts of black and white witnesses.
Gates will have copies of her books for sale and autographing, and will take questions from the audience.
The Grove Public Library and Friends of the Grove Public Library sponsor the Third Thursday programs.
Gates addresses the Third Thursday program at 12 noon. Everyone is invited. It is a brown bag lunch. Drinks and dessert are provided.
Gates brings a world of experience to her message. She was born a sharecropper's daughter In Okmulgee County, Okla. Her parents taught their eight children, two others died young, to work and learn. Graduating from Okmulgee's Dunbar High School in 1951, Gates was selected to attend Tuskegee Institute in Alabama where for three years she learned both in class and in activism. She and Norman Gates, who had received his B.S. degree and 2d lieutenant bars at Tuskegee two weeks earlier, married in 1954. Three months later Lt. Gates was called to active duty in the U.S. Air Force, and before long the new couple was living in London, England. Five children, 12 moves, a B.S. degree for Eddie Faye, and 14 years later, Gates left active duty and the family settled in Tulsa.
Eddie Faye began a 22-year career as a history teacher at Edison High School. She then became an administrator the Tulsa Public Schools. She was curriculum coordinator for social studies for all grades and was responsible for designing a curriculum that depicted the history, achievements and role models of all Americans. After retiring in 1992, Gates wrote her first two books. "Miz Lucy's Cookies: And Other Links in My Black Family Support System" is an autobiography. Next Gates wrote "They Came Searching: How Blacks Sought the Promised Land in Tulsa."
When the Oklahoma Legislature created the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, it should be no surprise that Eddie Faye Gates, historian and activist, was one of the eleven members. "Riot on Greenwood: The Total Destruction of Black Wall Street" was the book Gates wrote recording the accounts of black and white witnesses.
Gates will have copies of her books for sale and autographing, and will take questions from the audience.
The Grove Public Library and Friends of the Grove Public Library sponsor the Third Thursday programs.
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