The University of Tulsa College of Law Lectures and Videos

The Buck Colbert Franklin Memorial Civil Rights Lecture 

The Buck Colbert Franklin Memorial Civil Rights Lecture honors one of the first black 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.

• Civil Rights in the Post-9/11 Era of Global Conflicts and Populism, Sahar F. Aziz (2016)
• The Force of Implicit Bias: Science & Rhetoric, Jerry Kang (2016)
• Reading the Great Constitutional Dreambook: Oklahoma and the Origins of Equality, Alfred Brophy (2014)
• From Diversity to Inclusion Post Grutter and Fisher, Marta Tienda (2013)
• The Criminal, the Ape, and the Static Being: Three Views of Blacks in the Modern Era, Jennifer Eberhardt (2012)
• Diversity and Gender Equity in the Profession, Deborah Rhode (2012)
• Movement Lawyers, Courts, and Social Change, Tomiko Brown-Nagin (2011)
• 2010: A Freedom Odyssey, Connie Rice (2010)
• Forensic Science and Wrongful Convictions, Brandon L. Garrett (2008)