The Buck Colbert Franklin Memorial Civil Rights Lecture honors one of the first African American attorneys in Tulsa and in Oklahoma. In the aftermath of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, Franklin served his community and his profession by assisting victims of the riot. Working in a tent, because his office and home were destroyed, he represented clients, filed briefs and fought back against the injustice of the riot and the city’s assault on the Tulsa black community. He won a critical court decision striking down a city ordinance designed to prevent blacks from rebuilding their homes in Tulsa.
Lectures from 2016
Civil Rights in the Post-9/11 Era of Global Conflict and Populism, Sahar F. Aziz
The Force of Implicit Bias: Science & Rhetoric, Jerry Kang
Lectures from 2014
Reading the Great Constitutional Dreambook: Oklahoma and the Origins of Equality, Alfred Brophy
Lectures from 2013
From Diversity to Inclusion Post Grutter and Fisher, Marta Tienda
Lectures from 2012
The Criminal, the Ape, and the Static Being: Three Views of Blacks in the Modern Era, Jennifer Eberhardt
Diversity and Gender Equity in the Profession, Deborah Rhode
Lectures from 2011
Movement Lawyers, Courts, and Social Change, Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Lectures from 2010
2010: A Freedom Odyssey, Connie Rice
Lectures from 2008
Forensic Science and Wrongful Convictions, Brandon L. Garrett