Posted on April 30, 2012 with 140 notes.
Can I just say militant swag on a hundredthousandtrillion? a-lostbird: Buck Franklin (1879–1960), son of a Chickasaw freedman (emancipated slave) Buck Franklin (shown here ca. 1899 with his older brother, Matthew) was named after his grandfather, who had been a slave of a Chickasaw family in Oklahoma. Buck Franklin became a lawyer, notably defending survivors of the Tulsa Riots in 1921 which had resulted in the murder of 300 African Americans. Courtesy John Franklin

Can I just say militant swag on a hundredthousandtrillion?

a-lostbird:

Buck Franklin (1879–1960), son of a Chickasaw freedman (emancipated slave)

Buck Franklin (shown here ca. 1899 with his older brother, Matthew) was named after his grandfather, who had been a slave of a Chickasaw family in Oklahoma. Buck Franklin became a lawyer, notably defending survivors of the Tulsa Riots in 1921 which had resulted in the murder of 300 African Americans.

Courtesy John Franklin

Via: educationforliberation Source: nmai.si.edu
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