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John Hope Franklin
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Rentiesville, Oklahoma, USA
John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 – March 25, 2009) was an American historian of the 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…
Known for
- From Swastika to Jim Crow — John Hope Franklin2000
- First Person Singular: John Hope Franklin — Himself1997
- Ships of Slaves: The Middle Passage — Self1997
- American Experience1988
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Franklin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Rentiesville
- Place of death
- Durham
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Employer
- Howard University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- John Hope Franklin 2006.jpg
- Residence
- Rentiesville
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- date of death
- 2009-03-25
- date of birth
- 1915-01-02
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- nominated for
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography
- name in native language
- John Franklin
- described at URL
- www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26franklin.html
- Commons category
- John Hope Franklin
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