After 13 months of work, Franklin's first major book, "From Slavery to Freedom," was published. This seminal text was the first comprehensive book on African-American history to be published and it has since gone through seven revisions and has been translated into several foreign languages. John Hope talks about what he did to write a dispassionate portrayal of the African-American experience. 
In 1953, Thurgood Marshall argued before the Supreme Court of behalf of the plaintiffs in the case of Brown v. the Board of Education in Topeka. When the case was decided 18 months later, the Supreme Court had sounded the death knell of Jim Crow and segregation. John Hope Franklin discusses his role in helping Thurgood Marshall prepare the case in this special clip from Biographical Conversations with. .
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