Funeral program for John Wesley Williams: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

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.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1939
• Created by: Unidentified
• Subject of: John Wesley Williams, 1884 - 1939
• Subject of: Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church, American, founded 1905
• Type: programs
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (8.9 x 14 cm)
• Place depicted: Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: African Methodist Episcopal
• Topic: American South
• Topic: American West
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Funeral customs and rites
• Topic: Methodist
• Topic: Religion
• Object number: 2011.60.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Families of Anita Williams Christopher and David Owen Williams
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The displayed image also has an explicit CC0 designation. The underlying object's rights statement is: No Known Copyright Restrictions Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.