John Hope Franklin

John Hope Franklin

John Hope Franklin was born in Rentiesville, Oklahoma. He was raised in Tulsa and he graduated from Fisk University in 1935.  He also earned a master's and a doctorate in history from Harvard University. He study hard and pay a lot of attention to school to achieve the scholarly discipline necessary to write the story of his race. He also wanted include painful events that touched his own life. John Hope Franklin was an African American writer. In 1997 John Hope Franklin's literary landmark From Slavery to Freedom was marked as the fiftieth anniversary of the publication. In its seventh edition, translated into five languages and a lot of them were sold. Unlike any others , it has reshaped the way of African American history understanding and teaching. Since he start to write, John Hope Franklin has become one of the world's most celebrated historians. He published The Color Line which is a Legacy for the Twenty-First Century. His most recent book, is My Life and an Era. John Hope Franklin is James B. Duke and he is a Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University and also served on the faculties at St. Augustine's College, Howard University, Brooklyn College, and the University of Chicago. He is a former president of the Southern Historical Association. He received dozens of major awards and more than 100 honorary degrees. In 1995, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom which is one of the nation's highest civilian honor. That same year John Hope Franklin Research Center was founded at Duke as a repository for African and African American studies documentation.