Background
Franklin, John Hope was born on January 2, 1915 in Rentiesville, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Buck Colbert and Mollie (Parker) Franklin.
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John Hope Franklin has devoted his professional life to the study of African Americans. Originally published in 1943 by UNC Press, The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860 was his first book on the subject. As Franklin shows, freed slaves in the antebellum South did not enjoy the full rights of citizenship. Even in North Carolina, reputedly more liberal than most southern states, discriminatory laws became so harsh that many voluntarily returned to slavery.
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(The matriarch of a remarkable African American family, Sa...)
The matriarch of a remarkable African American family, Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. In Search of the Promised Land offers a vivid portrait of the extended Thomas-Rapier family and of slave life before the Civil War. Based on personal letters and an autobiography by one of Thomas' sons, this remarkable piece of detective work follows the family as they walk the boundary between slave and free, traveling across the country in search of a "promised land" where African Americans would be treated with respect. Their record of these journeys provides a vibrant picture of antebellum America, ranging from New Orleans to St. Louis to the Overland Trail. The authors weave a compelling narrative that illuminates the larger themes of slavery and freedom while examining the family's experiences with the California Gold Rush, Civil War battles, and steamboat adventures. The documents show how the Thomas-Rapier kin bore witness to the full gamut of slavery--from brutal punishment, runaways, and the breakup of slave families to miscegenation, insurrection panics, and slave patrols. The book also exposes the hidden lives of "virtually free" slaves, who maintained close relationships with whites, maneuvered within the system, and gained a large measure of autonomy.
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( Frederick Law Olmsted, the northerner who wrote compreh...)
Frederick Law Olmsted, the northerner who wrote comprehensively about his travels in the South, had no southern counterpart. But there were thousands of southerners -- planters, merchants, bankers, students, housewives, writers, and politicians -- who traveled extensively in the North and who recorded their impressions in letters to their families, in articles for the local press, and in the few books they wrote. In A Southern Odyssey the distinguished historian John Hope Franklin canvasses the entire field of southern travel and analyzes the travelers and their accounts of what they saw in the North. Many went out of sheer curiosity. Others went on business, to get an education, to make purchases for the store and home, to attend religious or political conventions, or to instruct northerners about the superior qualities of the southern way of life and warn them of the dangers of unbridled abolitionist attacks. The more they went, the more they doubted the wisdom of spending money among their enemies. But they continued to go, even against their own advice to fellow southerners, and some tarried until the attack on Fort Sumter. Concentrating as it does on the human side of North-South relations during the antebellum years, A Southern Odyssey represents a fresh and imaginative approach to a long overlooked chapter in southern history. It is also a handsome book, with twenty illustrations that comprise "An Album of Southern Travel."
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John Hope Franklin lived through America’s most defining twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformation in its myriad aspects, notably in his 3.5-million-copy bestseller, From Slavery to Freedom. Born in 1915, he, like every other African American, could not help but participate: he was evicted from whites-only train cars, confined to segregated schools, threatened—once with lynching—and consistently subjected to racism’s denigration of his humanity. Yet he managed to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard; become the first black historian to assume a full professorship at a white institution, Brooklyn College; and be appointed chair of the University of Chicago’s history department and, later, John B. Duke Professor at Duke University. He has reshaped the way African American history is understood and taught and become one of the world’s most celebrated historians, garnering over 130 honorary degrees. But Franklin’s participation was much more fundamental than that. From his effort in 1934 to hand President Franklin Roosevelt a petition calling for action in response to the Cordie Cheek lynching, to his 1997 appointment by President Clinton to head the President’s Initiative on Race, and continuing to the present, Franklin has influenced with determination and dignity the nation’s racial conscience. Whether aiding Thurgood Marshall’s preparation for arguing Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, marching to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965, or testifying against Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987, Franklin has pushed the national conversation on race toward humanity and equality, a life long effort that earned him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in 1995. Intimate, at times revelatory, Mirror to America chronicles Franklin’s life and this nation’s racial transformation in the twentieth century, and is a powerful reminder of the extent to which the problem of America remains the problem of color.
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Now available for the first time in paperback is distinguished historian John Hope Franklin's eloquent and forceful meditation on the persistent disparity between the goal of racial equality in America and the facts of discrimination. In a searing critique of Thomas Jefferson, Franklin shows that this spokesman for democracy did not include African Americans among those "created equal." Franklin chronicles the events of the nineteenth century that solidified inequality in America and shows how emancipation dealt only with slavery, not with inequality, In the twentieth century, America finally confronted the fact that equality is indivisible: it must not be divided so that it is extended to some at the expense of others. Once this indivisibility is accepted, Franklin charges, America faces the monumental task of overcoming its long heritage of inequality. Racial Equality in America is a powerful reminder that our history is more than a record of idealized democratic traditions and institutions. It is a dramatic message to all Americans, calling them to know their history and themselves.
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In George Washington Williams, John Hope Franklin reconstructs the life of the controversial, self-made black intellectual who wrote the first history of African Americans in the United States. Awarded the Clarence L. Holte Literary Prize, this book traces Franklin’s forty-year quest for Williams’s story, a story largely lost to history until this volume was first published in 1985. The result, part biography and part social history, is a unique consideration of a pioneering historian by his most distinguished successor. Williams, who lived from 1849 to 1891, had a remarkable career as soldier, minister, journalist, lawyer, politician, freelance diplomat, and African traveler, as well as a historian. While Franklin reveals the accomplishments of this neglected figure and emphasizes the racism that curtailed Williams’s many talents, he also highlights the personal weaknesses that damaged Williams’s relationships and career. Williams led the way in presenting African American history accurately through the use of oral history and archival research, sought to legitimize it as a field of historical study, and spoke out in support of an American Negro Historical Society and as a critic of European imperialism in Africa. He also became erratic and faithless to his family and creditors and died at the age of forty-one, destitute and alienated from family and friends. George Washington Williams is nothing less than a classic biography of a brilliant though flawed individual whose History of the Negro Race in America remains a landmark in African American history and American intellectual history.
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This limited edition boxed set brings together two critically acclaimed books by the man acknowledged as the dean of American historians--Racial Equality in America and The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-First Century. Taken together these volumes offer a powerful statement about the long and as yet unrealized goal of equal rights for all Americans. Each book is numbered and signed by the author. Issued in a limited edition of 300, these beautiful boxed sets are sure to be a collector's item.In 1976 John Hope Franklin delivered the prestigious Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. On the occasion of the Bicentennial, Racial Equality in America allowed Franklin to reflect on our nation's brutal history of racial discrimination. His message was harsh: with inequality embedded in the roots of our land, the task of achieving racial equality would be a monumental one indeed. Nearly twenty years after Racial Equality in American, Franklin addressed the issue of racial inequality. In the Paul Anthony Brick Lectures given at the University of Missouri-Columbia, just one day after the "not guilty" verdict was returned in the trial of Los Angeles police officers for the beating of Rodney King, Franklin delivered a piercing depiction of the color line that persists in America. A scathing portrait of how discrimination has been allowed to flourish and a poignantly despairing prognosis for its end, The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-First Century is a perfect companion to the earlier volume. Together these books powerfully define and describe the long-held, but still unrealized, goal of equal rights for all Americans.
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Reconstruction after the Civil War explores the role of former slaves during this period in American history. Looking past popular myths and controversial scholarship, John Hope Franklin uses his astute insight and careful research to provide an accurate, comprehensive portrait of the era. His arguments concerning the brevity of the North’s occupation, the limited power wielded by former slaves, the influence of moderate southerners, the flawed constitutions of the radical state governments, and the downfall of Reconstruction remain compelling today. This new edition of Reconstruction after the Civil War also includes a foreword by Eric Foner and a perceptive essay by Michael W. Fitzgerald.
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In "The Militant South, 1800-1861", John Hope Franklin identifies the factors and causes of the South's festering propensity for aggression that contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. Franklin asserts that the South was dominated by militant white men who resorted to violence in the face of social, personal, or political conflict. Fueled by their defense of slavery and a persistent desire to keep the North out of their affairs, Southerners adopted a vicious bellicosity that intensified as war drew nearer. Drawing from Southern newspapers, government archives, memoirs, letters, and firsthand accounts, Franklin masterfully details the sources and consequences of antebellum aggression in the South. First published in 1956, this classic volume is an enduring and impeccably researched contribution to Southern history. This paperback edition features a new preface in which the author discusses controversial responses to the book.
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In Race and History, John Hope Franklin, one of the nation's foremost historians, collects twenty-seven of his most influential shorter writings. The essays are presented thematically and include pieces on southern history; significant but neglected historical figures; historiography; the connection between historical problems and contemporary issues; and the public role of the historian. Collectively these essays reveal Franklin as a man who has exhibited immense courage and intellectual independence in the face of cultural and social bias, a scholar who has set the tone and direction for twentieth-century African-American studies, and a writer whose insistence on balance and truth has inspired two generations of historians. PRAISE FOR THE BOOK "These essays are examples of first-rate scholarship. Even when treading his way through the most treacherous issue of American life, race, Franklin is a model for us all...To read this collection is to be reminded of just how important John Hope Franklin has been in the historical profession." -Dan T. Carter, Emory University "This book is packed full of hard truths that needed saying. It is our fortune that they are said so well and in a voice that carries much authority." -C. Vann Woodward, New Republic "Readers will find these twenty-seven essays eloquent, barbed, timely and outspoken. Franklin's assessment of a widening socioeconomic chasm between blacks and whites, his sweeping surveys of racism from the American Revolution to the Civil War and beyond, are hard-hitting." -Publisher's Weekly "Franklin is a brilliant teacher, with something to teach us all. If only we will listen." - Christian Science Monitor John Hope Franklin is James B. Duke Professor of History Emeritus and professor of legal history at Duke University. He has received more than eighty honorary degrees. His books include From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans; Racial Equality in America; A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North; and George Washington Williams: A Biography.
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Ever since its original publication in 1961, Reconstruction after the Civil War has been praised for cutting through the controversial scholarship and popular myths of the time to provide an accurate account of the role of former slaves during this period in American history. Now Franklin has updated his work to acknowledge the enormous body of research and scholarship that followed in the wake of the first edition. New are Franklin’s references to important, later texts that enrich the original narrative. In addition, the extensive bibliography has been thoroughly revised. What has not changed, however, is the foundation Franklin has laid. Still compelling are his arguments concerning the brevity of the North’s military occupation of the South, the limited amount of power wielded by former slaves, the influence of moderate southerners, the flaws of the constitutions drawn up by the Radical state governments, and the reasons for the downfall of Reconstruction.
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( Nearly twenty years after his book Racial Equality in A...)
Nearly twenty years after his book Racial Equality in America, Franklin addressed the issue of racial inequality. In the Paul Anthony Brick Lectures given at the University of Missouri-Columbia, just one day after the "not guilty" verdict was returned in the trial of Los Angeles police officers for the beating of Rodney King, Franklin delivered a piercing depiction of the color line that persists in America. A scathing portrait of how discrimination has been allowed to flourish and a poignantly despairing prognosis for its end, The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-First Century is a perfect companion to the earlier volume. Together these books powerfully define and describe the long-held, but still unrealized, goal of equal rights for all Americans.
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writer and university professor
Franklin, John Hope was born on January 2, 1915 in Rentiesville, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Buck Colbert and Mollie (Parker) Franklin.
AB, Fisk University, 1935. AM, Harvard, 1936; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1941. Degree (honorary), Morgan State College.
Degree (honorary), Virginia State College. Degree (honorary), Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. Degree (honorary), Cambridge University.
Degree (honorary), Drake University. Degree (honorary), Michigan State University. Degree (honorary), University Illinois.
Degree (honorary), Carnegie-Mellon University. Degree (honorary), Columbia University. Degree (honorary), Columbia College, Chicago.
Degree (honorary), Loyola University, Chicago. Degree (honorary), Brooklyn College. Degree (honorary), Bard College.
Degree (honorary), Boston College. Degree (honorary), Brown University. Degree (honorary), Tuskegee Institute.
Degree (honorary), Grand Valley College. Degree (honorary), Marquette University. Degree (honorary), Lincoln College, Illinois.
Degree (honorary), Princeton University. Degree (honorary), Hamline University. Degree (honorary), Fisk University.
Degree (honorary), Rhode Island College. Degree (honorary), Dickinson College. Degree (honorary), Howard University.
Degree (honorary), University Maryland. Degree (honorary), University Notre Dame. Degree (honorary), Tulsa University.
Degree (honorary), Morehouse College. Degree (honorary), Miami University. Degree (honorary), Johnson C. Smith University.
Degree (honorary), Lake Forest College. Degree (honorary), Tougaloo College. Degree (honorary), Union College.
Degree (honorary), Northwestern University. Degree (honorary), Whittier College. Degree (honorary), University Massachusetts.
Degree (honorary), University Michigan. Degree (honorary), Seattle University. Degree (honorary), University Toledo.
Degree (honorary), Yale University. Degree (honorary), Long Island University. Degree (honorary), Catholic University America.
Degree (honorary), Tulane University. Degree (honorary), Temple University. Degree (honorary), Kalamazoo College.
Degree (honorary), Washington University, St. Louis. Degree (honorary), Trinity College, Connecticut. Degree (honorary), Arizona State University.
Degree (honorary), State University of New York, Albany. Degree (honorary), Northern Michigan University. Degree (honorary), University Utah.
Degree (honorary), College New Rochelle. Degree (honorary), George Washington University. Degree (honorary), Governors State University.
Degree (honorary), Harvard University. Degree (honorary), University Pennsylvania. Degree (honorary), Ripon College.
Degree (honorary), Atlanta University. Degree (honorary), Wayne State University. Degree (honorary), University North Carolina.
Degree (honorary), Dillard University. Degree (honorary), Manhattan College. Degree (honorary), Roosevelt University.
Degree (honorary), North Carolina Central University. Degree (honorary), Indiana State University. Degree (honorary), St. Olaf College.
Degree (honorary), Emory University. Degree (honorary), University Miami. Degree (honorary), University Connecticut.
Degree (honorary), University North Carolina. Degree (honorary), Brandeis University. Degree (honorary), Wake Forest University.
Degree (honorary), Wilkes College. Degree (honorary), Queen's College, New York. Degree (honorary), Wilmington College.
Degree (honorary), University North Carolina, Greensboro. Degree (honorary), Queens College, Charlotte, North Carolina. Degree (honorary), Illinois State University.
Degree (honorary), Bates College. Degree (honorary), Williams College, University South. Degree (honorary), University North Carolina.
Degree (honorary), American University. Degree (honorary), Furman University. Degree (honorary), Georgetown University.
Degree (honorary), Tufts University. Degree (honorary), Elizabeth City State University. Degree (honorary), Shaw University.
Degree (honorary), San Francisco University. Degree (honorary), Washington Lee University. Degree (honorary), Columbia College, Chicago.
Degree (honorary), Lincoln Memorial University. Degree (honorary), Elmira College. Degree (honorary), Lane College.
Degree (honorary), Bethune-Cookman College, Amherst College, University Cincinnati, Dartmouth College, University Kentucky, Duke University, San Francisco State University, York College, Northeastern University, Occidental College. Degree (honorary), University Akron. Degree (honorary), University Vermont.
Degree (honorary), Bennett College. Degree (honorary), San Diego University. Degree (honorary), Pennsylvania State University.
Degree (honorary), Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, Pomona College. Degree (honorary), University San Diego, University Vermont, University Akron, University North Carolina, Pembroke. Degree (honorary), South Carolina State University.
Degree (honorary), University District of Columbia. Degree (honorary), Wesleyan University, 2006. Degree (honorary), Lafayette College, 2006.
Writer and university professor Professor, of History Saint Augustine"s College 1939-1943, North Carolina College, Durham 1943-1947, Howard University 1947-1956. Chairman Department, of History Brooklyn College 1956-1964.
Professor, of American History University of Chicago 1964-1982, Chairman Department, of History 1967-1970, John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor 1969-1982.
James; Professor, of History Duke University since 1982. Pitt Professor, of American History and Institutions Cambridge University 1962-1963.
Visiting Professor Harvard, Wisconsin, Cornell, Hawaii, Calif, and Cambridge Universities, and Salzburg Seminar. Chairman Board of Foreign Scholarships 1966-1969, National Council on Humanities 1976-1979.
Director 111. Bell Telephone Company 1972-1980.
Edward Austin Fellow 1937-1938, Rosenwald Fellow 1937-1939, Guggenheim Fellow 1950-1951, 1973-1974. President's Fellow, Brown University 1952-1953, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioural Science 1973-1974. Senior Mellon Fellow, National Humanities Center since 1980.
Fulbright Professor, Australia 1960.
Jefferson Lecturer in Humanities 1976. President 1978-1979), Southern Historical Association (President 1970-1971), Organization of American Historians (President 1970-1975), Association for Study of Negro Life and History, American Studies Association, American Philosophical Society, American Association of University professors
Numerous honorary degrees.
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( Ever since its original publication in 1961, Reconstruc...)
( Now available for the first time in paperback is distin...)
( This limited edition boxed set brings together two crit...)
(The matriarch of a remarkable African American family, Sa...)
(In "The Militant South, 1800-1861", John Hope Franklin id...)
( In George Washington Williams, John Hope Franklin recon...)
("The problem of the 20th century will be the problem of t...)
( John Hope Franklin lived through America’s most definin...)
(In Race and History, John Hope Franklin, one of the natio...)
( Frederick Law Olmsted, the northerner who wrote compreh...)
( Nearly twenty years after his book Racial Equality in A...)
( Reconstruction after the Civil War explores the role of...)
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Trustee Chicago Symphony, 1976—1980, Fisk University, 1947—1980. Board directors Salzburg Seminar, Museum of Science and Industry, 1968—1980, DuSable Museum, 1970—2009. Fellow: American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Member: American Association of University Professors, American Philosophical Society (Jefferson medal 1993, Benjamin Franklin medal 2006), American Studies Association (past president), Association for Study Negro Life and History, Organization American Historians (president 1974-1975), Southern History Association 1970-1971, American History Association 1978-1979, Phi Alpha Theta, Phi Beta Kappa (senate 1966-1982, president 1973-1976, Sidney Hook award 1994).
Married Aurelia E. Whittington, June 11, 1940 (deceased 1999). 1 child John Whittington.