John Hope Franklin (1915–2009)
Author of From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
About the Author
The son of an attorney who practiced before the U.S. Supreme Court, John Hope Franklin was born in Rentiesville, Oklahoma on January 2, 1915. He received a B. A. from Fisk University in 1935 and a master's degree in 1936 and a Ph.D. in 1941 from Harvard University. During his career in education, show more he taught at a numerous institutions including Brooklyn College, Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and Duke University. He also had teaching stints in Australia, China, and Zimbabwe. He has written numerous scholarly works including The Militant South, 1800-1861 (1956); Reconstruction After the Civil War (1961); The Emancipation Proclamation (1963); and The Color Line: Legacy for the 21st Century (1993). His comprehensive history From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans (1947) is generally acknowledged to be the basic survey of African American history. He received numerous awards during his lifetime including the Medal of Freedom in 1995 and the John W. Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanities in 2006. He worked with Thurgood Marshall's team of lawyers in their effort to end segregation in the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education and participated in the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was president of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Southern Historical Association, and the American Studies Association. He was also a founding member of the Black Academy of Arts and served on the U.S. Commission for UNESCO and the Committee on International Exchange of Scholars. He died of congestive heart failure on March 25, 2009 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by John Hope Franklin
In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (New Narratives in American History) (2005) 71 copies, 2 reviews
The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-First Century (Paul Anthony Brick Lectures) (1993) 41 copies, 2 reviews
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans, Vol. 2: From the Civil War to the Present (Chapters 11-24 Vol… (1997) 27 copies
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans, Vol. 1: From the Beginnings Through Reconstruction (1947) 17 copies
Race and the Constitution in the nineteenth century: A time to tell the truth about the role of race in American… (1989) 2 copies
Ethnicity In American Life 1 copy
Associated Works
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1991) — Contributor — 69 copies
The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing (2011) — Contributor — 33 copies, 2 reviews
One America in the 21st century : the report of President Bill Clinton's initiative on race (2009) — Foreword — 3 copies
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- Canonical name
- Franklin, John Hope
- Birthdate
- 1915-01-02
- Date of death
- 2009-03-25
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Rentiesville, Oklahoma, USA
- Place of death
- Durham, North Carolina, USA
- Cause of death
- congestive heart failure
- Education
- Fisk University (BA|1935)
Harvard University (MA|1936|Ph.D|1941) - Occupations
- historian
university professor - Organizations
- Fellowship of Southern Writers (charter member)
University of Chicago
American Historical Association
Duke University
Southern Historical Association - Awards and honors
- Phi Beta Kappa
Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement (1989)
Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement (1994)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1995)
Kluge Prize (2006)
NAACP Spingarn Medal (1995) (show all 10)
Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [2002])
Phi Beta Kappa's Sidney Hook Memorial Award (1994)
Jefferson Lecture (1976)
Charles Frankel Prize (1993)
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Statistics
- Works
- 33
- Also by
- 18
- Members
- 2,231
- Popularity
- #11,498
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 15
- ISBNs
- 95
- Languages
- 4
- Favorited
- 10