John Hope Franklin

Historian, Academic

1915 – 2009

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Who was John Hope Franklin?

John Hope Franklin was an American historian of United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and continually updated. More than three million copies have been sold. In 1995, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

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Born
Jan 2, 1915
Rentiesville
Also known as
  • Professor John Hope Franklin
Parents
Spouses
Children
Ethnicity
  • African American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Doctorate, Harvard University
    History
    ( - 1941)
  • Bachelor of Arts, Fisk University
    ( - 1935)
  • Dillard University
  • Booker T. Washington High School
Employment
  • James B. Duke Professor, Duke University
    (1983 - )
  • Howard University
    (1947 - 1956)
  • North Carolina Central University
  • St. Augustine's College
  • John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago
    (1969 - 1982)
  • Chair of the History Department, University of Chicago
    (1967 - 1970)
  • University of Chicago
    (1964 - 1968)
  • Fisk University
  • Chair of the History Department, Brooklyn College
    (1956 - 1964)
  • Professor of Legal History, Duke University
    (1985 - 1992)
Lived in
  • Oklahoma
  • Tulsa
Died
Mar 25, 2009
Durham

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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