My Life and An Era : The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin /

Memoir of a successful African-American lawyer in Tulsa, who started life on a western ranch, married a college classmate, and witnessed the Tulsa race riot of 1921.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Franklin, Buck Colbert, 1879-1960
Other Authors: Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009, Franklin, John Whittington, 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Franklin, Buck Colbert, > 1879-1960.
African American lawyers.
Avocats noirs americains > Oklahoma > Biographies.
African American lawyers > Oklahoma > Biography.
Oklahoma.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biography
Autobiography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Days of early childhood
  • Life on the ranch
  • Dawes Academy
  • Roger Williams University
  • Atlanta Baptist College
  • Frustration and indecision
  • Ardmore
  • Rentiesville: a period of crusading
  • Tulsa, 1921: bloody racial conflict
  • 1929: the beginning of panic
  • A promise fulfilled
  • Climbing the ladder of the law
  • Others in my life
  • The world today and my beliefs
  • Loose ends
  • conclusion.

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