Franklin, Buck Colbert, 1879-1960 (Personal Name)

My life and an era, c1997: CIP t.p. (Buck Colbert Franklin) data sheet (b. May 6, 1879) pref. (d. 1960)

African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Franklin, Buck Colbert; lawyer, freedman, farmer; born 06 May 1879 in Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma, United States; his maternal grandmother was black and his maternal grandfather was half Choctaw and half black, he and his siblings were enrolled as Choctaw freedmen (1891); went by his initials (B.C.) as an adult to prevent whites from calling him by his first name; attended the Dawes Academy in Berwyn, Indian Territory (1894-1896), entered Roger Williams University in Nashville, Tennessee two years later, went to Atlanta Baptist College in 1900, but returned to Indian Territory after one year; he was a lifelong Jeffersonian Democrat, lawyer for the Tulsa riot cases, honored by the Oklahoma Bar Association and the Tulsa YMCA (1959); died September 24, 1960 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States)

African American National Biography, accessed January 22, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Franklin, Buck Colbert; Ben Franklin; lawyer, farmer; born 06 May 1879 in the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, United States; attended the Dawes Academy in Berwyn, Indian Territory (1894-1896); entered Roger Williams University in Nashville, Tennessee (1898); graduated from the Sprague Law School in Detroit, Michigan; completed legal training (1906); known Democrat modeled after T. Jefferson's political philosophy; moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma to start legal practice; most important legal work representing Tulsa riot victims against insurance companies denying claims and against a city ordinance passed after the riot to prevent blacks from rebuilding; honored by the Oklahoma Bar Association and the Tulsa YMCA (1958); Tulsa named a new park in his honor (1968); died 24 September 1960 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States)