Reconstruction: After the Civil War (1961)
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Reconstruction: After the Civil War (1961)
John Hope Franklin is the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History and for seven years was Professor of Legal History in the Law School at Duke University. He is from Oklahoma and he graduated from Fisk University. He received his A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Harvard University. He has taught at Fisk University, St. Augustines College, North Carolina Central University, and Howard University. In 1956 he went to Brooklyn College as Chairman of the Department of History; and in 1964, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago, serving as Chairman of the Department of History from 1967 to 1970.
Professor Franklins has writing numerous publications. His best known book is From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans, now in its seventh edition. Professor Franklin was in numerous professional and education organizations. He has also written The Emancipation Proclamation, The Militant South, The Free Negro in North Carolina, Reconstruction After the Civil War, and A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Ante-bellum North. Perhaps his best known book is From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans, now in its seventh edition. His Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities for 1976 was published in 1985 and received the Clarence L. Holte Literary Prize for that year. . In 1990, a collection of essays covering a teaching and writing career of fifty years was published under the title, Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938-1988. In 1993, he published The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-first Century. Professor Franklins most recent book, My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin is an autobiography of his father that he edited with his son, John Whittington Franklin. His current research deals with “Dissidents on the Plantation: Runaway Slaves.”
Professor Franklin has also served on many national commissions and delegations, including the National Council on the Humanities, from which he resigned in 1979, when the President appointed him to the Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. He has also served as President of the following organizations: The American Studies Association (1967), the Southern Historical Association (1970), the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa (1973-76), the Organization of American Historians (1975), and the American Historical Association (1979). He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Fisk University, the Chicago Public Library, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association.
Professor Franklin has even been the recipient of many honors. In 1978, Whos Who in America selected Dr. Franklin as one of eight Americans who has made significant contributions to society. In the same year, he was also elected to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. Professor Franklin has been extensively written about in various articles and books. Most recently he was the subject of