Program for a 90th birthday celebration for Juanita Smith Booker: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Digital copy of a 90th birthday celebration program for Juanita Smith Booker, a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre. The program is printed in black ink on a single sheet of pink paper, folded once to form four pages. The cover page features a black and white image of Booker and the text [Celebration of Life / In Honor of / Juanita Smith Booker] above the image and the time, date, and location of the celebration below the image. The birthday celebration took place at the Church of the Living God on January 31, 2004.

The left-side page of the interior of the program has a three-paragraph announcement of Booker's 90th birthday celebration with family, which took place on January 15, 2004. The announcement details her birthday celebration with family including a reflection on "her life from the early years in Tulsa to recalling the turbulent days following the Tulsa Race Riot." The announcement also lists her parents, husband, children, and extended family. The right-side interior page lists the birthday celebration's program and speakers.

The back page of the program includes an acknowledgement from the family thanking those who attended and the name of the event's caterer.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: January 31, 2004
• Printed by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Juanita Booker, American, 1914 - 2011
• Subject of: Church of the Living God, CWFF Temple 53, American, founded 1913
• Owned by: Eddie Faye Gates, American, 1934 - 2021
• Type: digital images
• Type: programs
• Type: digital media - born analog
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: File size (overall): 263.98 MB
• Place collected: Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
• Place used: Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: American South
• Topic: American West
• Topic: Christianity
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Families
• Topic: Religion
• Topic: Social life and customs
• Object number: 2014.117.76
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa OK, author, historian, community activist
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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