"My father\'s Life represented many layers of the human experience--freedman and Native American, farmer and rancher, rural educator and urban professional."--John Hope Franklin Buck Colbert Franklin (1879-1960) led an extraordinary life; from his youth in what was then the Indian Territory to his practice of law in twentieth-century Tulsa, he was an observant witness to the changes in politics, law, daily existence, and race relations that transformed the wide-open Southwest.
Fas. "My father\'s Life represented many layers of the human experience--freedman and Native American, farmer and rancher, rural educator and urban professional."--John Hope Franklin Buck Colbert Franklin (1879-1960) led an extraordinary life; from his youth in what was then the Indian Territory to his practice of law in twentieth-century Tulsa, he was an observant witness to the changes in politics, law, daily existence, and race relations that transformed the wide-open Southwest
