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DANDYISM………..Plate 1912.

Buck Colbert “B.C.” FRANKLIN

Buck Colbert “B.C.” Franklin is known as the lawyer who won the court victory for black residents after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

Franklin was born in 1879 and was named after his grandfather, who had been an enslaved African of a Chickasaw family in Oklahoma. After completing his studies, he opened up his law practice in the predominately white town of Ardmore, Oklahoma. However, the racial tension at the time was so s...