biography
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Franklin, John Hope
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| lived:
| (1915– )
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| biography:
| Historian, born in Rentiesville, Oklahoma, USA. He studied at Fisk University and did his graduate work at Harvard, taught at colleges in North Carolina, and joined the faculty of Howard University (1947). That same year he published his pathbreaking study, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of American Negroes. He became chairman of the history department of Brooklyn College (1956–64), professor at the University of Chicago (1964–82), and professor at Duke University (1982–5). He was the first African-American to become president of the American Historical Association, and as the history of African-Americans finally gained its place among the serious fields of inquiry, he became recognized both as the nestor of the discipline and as a valued voice in the chorus of all American historians. Among his other publications are Reconstruction after the Civil War (1961), The Emancipation Proclamation (1963), and Racial Equality in America (1976). |
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