| John Hope Franklin  Born: 2-Jan-1915
Birthplace: Rentiesville, OK
Died: 25-Mar-2009
Location of death: Durham, NC [1]
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian, Educator Nationality: United States
Executive summary: From Slavery to Freedom
[1] Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC.
Father: Buck Colbert Franklin (attorney)
Mother: Mollie Parker
Wife: Aurelia E. Whittington (m. 1940, d. Jan-1999, one son)
Son: John Whittington Franklin
High School: Booker T. Washington High School, Tulsa, OK (1931)
University: AB, Fisk University, Nashville, TN (1935)
University: AM, Harvard University (1936)
University: PhD, Harvard University (1941)
Professor: Brooklyn College
Professor: University of Chicago
American Historical Association President
Citizens for a Moratorium on Federal Executions
Cosmos Club
Gore 2000
John Kerry for President
Southern Historical Society President
Phi Beta Kappa Society President
Cosmos Club Award 1994
Fulbright Australia
Presidential Medal of Freedom 1995
Spingarn Medal 1995
Author of books:
From Slavery to Freedom (1947, history, with Alfred A. Moss, Jr.)
The Militant South, 1800-1861 (1956, history)
Reconstruction: After the Civil War (1961, history)
The Emancipation Proclamation (1963, history)
George Washington Williams: A Biography (1985, biography)
Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938-1988 (1989, essays)
The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-First Century (1993, history)
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin (2005, memoir)
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