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Franklin Henry Bryant (1907), Rebecca Ciota Jan 1907

Franklin Henry Bryant (1907), Rebecca Ciota

Black History at Colorado Law

Born in 1877 and troubled from a young age by lung problems,19 Franklin Henry Bryant (1907) dedicated himself to his education. In 1898, he joined the Seventh Day Adventist Church, where he served as a stenographer for the son of the founders of the Seventh Day Adventists, J. Edson White.

Bryant traveled across the country with the Adventists. After suffering an injury to or illness in his face, he traveled to Battle Creek, Michigan, for treatment, where the Adventist Sanitarium workers received him poorly. J. Edson White and his brother W.C. White interceded on Bryant’s behalf, and Bryant moved …


Franklin Laveale Anderson (Ex 1899), Rebecca Ciota Jan 1899

Franklin Laveale Anderson (Ex 1899), Rebecca Ciota

Black History at Colorado Law

Only four years after the University of Colorado Law School’s 1892 opening, Franklin LaVeale Anderson (ex 1899) enrolled at the law school in 1896. He is believed to be the first Black student to enroll at the University of Colorado Boulder and is the University of Colorado Law School’s first Black student.

Anderson was born a free person in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1859. During his early childhood, slavery was legal in Missouri. Slave-holding states in the Antebellum United States forbid the formal education of Black persons.11 However, records indicate that Anderson received some education in Missouri, while also …