Buck Colbert Franklin (1879-1960) is the father of the famous, John Hope Franklin. He led an extraordinary life; from his boyhood adventures on a ranch 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. After returning from college in the foreign worlds of Nashville and Atlanta, Franklin married a college classmate, studied law by mail, passed the bar, and struggled to build a practice in Ardmore and, later, in the all-black town of Rentiesville during the first years of Oklahoma's statehood. Buck Franklin, said of his children, "We have three children of whom I am very proud. Mozella Franklin-Jones, Buck Colbert Franklin, Jr., and John Hope Franklin."
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