Sherry Gamble Smith – the founding president and CEO of the Black Wall Street Chamber of Commerce who used her platform to help resurrect the Tulsa Juneteenth Festival and her bully pulpit to challenge then-President Donald Trump’s attempt to sully the holiday with a grandstanding appearance in the Historic Greenwood District – was found dead along with her husband, Martin Everett Smith, in their Bixby home on July 6.

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