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Billy James Hargis (August 3, 1925 – November 27, 2004) was an American Christian evangelist.At the height of his popularity in the 1950s and 1960s, his Christian Crusade ministry was broadcast on over 500 radio stations and 250 television stations.
Hughes “Uncle Redd” Van Ellis, one of the last three known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died, according a family statement. He was 102. He was 102.
Fletcher was born May 10, 1914, in Comanche, Oklahoma, to Lucinda Ellis and John Wesley Ford. [a] [3] She was the second oldest of eight children. [1]One younger brother, Hughes Van Ellis, was a newborn at the time of the massacre; [1] [3] Ellis died on October 9, 2023, at the age of 102. [4]
Carlton D'Metrius Pearson (March 19, 1953 – November 19, 2023) was an American Christian minister and gospel music artist. [1] At one time, he was the pastor of the Higher Dimensions Evangelistic Center Incorporated, later named the Higher Dimensions Family Church, which was one of the largest churches in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
One of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre died Monday.. Hughes “Uncle Red” Van Ellis was 102, a family publicist said. Van Ellis was 6 months old when his family fled a white ...
LaFortune was a 1982 recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award from the Boy Scouts of America, and in 1995 the University of Tulsa granted him an honorary doctor of laws degree. [3] [6] In 2017, a portrait of LaFortune was unveiled at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center. The portrait was made by Nathan Opp, professor of art at Oral Roberts University.
Oklahoma Republican James Inhofe, a mainstay of the ideological right in the U.S. Congress and champion of American military strength who derided as a hoax the notion that human activities drove ...
Dr. Duane Harold King (May 18, 1947 – September 17, 2017) [1] was an American writer, educator, and museum director. King wrote extensively on Native American topics with a special interest in Cherokee and linguistics.