A Tulsa native and graduate of Harvard Law School, Hannibal B. Johnson is an attorney, author, and consultant. His latest book is Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples with Its Historical Racial Trauma (2020). He will deliver one of the plenary talks for “Reflecting on the Past, Facing the Future,” OU’s symposium devoted to the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre, on April 8–9.
Practicing law in a Red Cross tent are B. C. Franklin (right) and his partner I. H. Spears with their secretary Effie Thompson on June 6, 1921, five days after the Tulsa Race Massacre /…