John Hope Franklin

John Hope Franklin ( born January 2, 1915 in Rentiesville, Oklahoma, † March 25, 2009 in Durham, North Carolina) was an American historian and president of the American Historical Association and professor of history at Duke University. He is best known for his 1947 published work From Slavery to Freedom. In 1995 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded the highest civilian honor that have to forgive the United States. Franklin was married to Aurelia Whittington.

Life

Franklin was born in Rentiesville, Oklahoma and was named after John Hope ( 1868-1936 ). He graduated from Fisk University in 1935 and earned a doctorate in history in 1941 from Harvard University.

In the early 1950s served Franklin in an out of Thurgood Marshall NAACP Legal Defense Team. It helped to draw up the action that a decision by the United States Supreme Court led in 1954, which ended legal segregation of black and white children in public schools.

Between 1947 and 1956 he taught at Howard University, and from 1956 to 1964 he conducted at Brooklyn College in the Faculty of History in the chair. From 1964 to 1982 he served in the History Department at the University of Chicago, from 1967 to 1970 and as chairman from 1969 to 1982 when John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor. 1983 Franklin was appointed the James B. Duke Professor of History at Duke University and in 1985 he became professor emeritus. Franklin was also from 1985 to 1992 Professor of Legal History at Duke University Law School.

He was elected from 1962 to 1969 in the Fulbright Board of Foreign Studies and was its chairman from 1966 to 1969. In 1980 he participated in the UNESCO General Conference in Belgrade in part as a member of the U.S. delegation.

Prizes and awards

On 20 May 2006 Franklin the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters at the 171st Commencement Exercises of the Lafayette College was granted. On 15 November 2006 it was announced that Franklin the third recipient of the John W. Kluge Prize for the completion of his life's work, in the study of mankind is. He shared the prize with Yu Ying -shih.

General Services

Franklin was president of the American Historical Association (1979 ), the American Studies Association (1967 ), the Southern Historical Association (1970), the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa ( 1973-76 ) and the Organization of American. He was a member of the Board of Trustees at Fisk University, the Chicago Public Library and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.

Franklin was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first Greek- digit founded fraternity for African Americans. He was an early beneficiary of the Foundation Publishers of the Student Union, which provides financial support and membership for writers.

Books (selection)

  • The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1943, 1995.
  • The diary of James T. Ayers, Civil War recruiter ed, with introd. , By John Franklin. Springfield; State of Illinois, 1947.
  • From Slavery to Freedom. A History of African Americans, 1st ed New York: AA Knopf, 1947. Last update with Alfred Moss, 8th ed McGraw-Hill Education, 2001, ISBN 0-07-112058-0, dt From slavery to freedom. The history of blacks in the United States, Berlin: Ullstein, 1999 - From the book sold more than 3 million copies. It has strongly influenced the image of the African-American history.
  • The militant South, 1800-1861. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1956; Illinois 1st pbk. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
  • Reconstruction: after the Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
  • The Emancipation proclamation. 1st ed Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1963; 2nd ed Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1993.
  • Land of the free; a history of the United States, by John W. Caughey, John Hope Franklin and Ernest R. May Educational advisers: Richard M. Clowes and Alfred T. Clark, Jr. Rev. New York: Benziger Bros., 1966.
  • The Negro in Twentieth Century America: A Reader on the Struggle for Civil Rights, by John Hope Franklin & Isidore Starr. New York: Vintage Books, 1967.
  • Color and race. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
  • The Historian and Public Policy, by John Hope Franklin. Chicago: University of Chicago Center for Policy Study, c1974.
  • Racial Equality in America, by John Hope Franklin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1976.
  • A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North. by John Hope Franklin. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1976.
  • Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century, edited by John Hope Franklin and August Meier. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1982.
  • George Washington Williams: A Biography, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985; Reprint, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998.
  • Race and History: Selected Essays 1938-1988, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1989.
  • The Facts of Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin, edited by Eric Anderson and Alfred A. Moss, Jr. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1991.
  • The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-first Century, John Hope Franklin. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, c1993.
  • Racial Equality in America, by John Hope Franklin. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993.
  • My Life and an Era: the Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin edited by John Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1997, 2000.
  • Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation, John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweinger. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • Mirror to America. The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005, ISBN 0-374-29944-7

Reference

Paul Finkelman, " John Hope Franklin, " in Robert Allen Rutland, ed " Clio 's Favorites: Leading Historians of the United States, 1945-2000 " U of Missouri Press. (2000 ), pp. 49-67

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