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Enter Now For Your Chance to Win John Hope Franklin's All-New Autobiography, Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin - Courtesy of UNC-TV's North Carolina Bookwatch! Tune in to UNC-TV's North Carolina Bookwatch, Friday, August 11, at 9:30 PM, as John Hope Franklin shares the book that Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Severus Lewis has called “a great historian’s autobiography that will serve as an indispensable history of our times”. After watching this episode, answer the Mirror to America trivia question located at the North Carolina Bookwatch Blog for your chance to take home this unique and invaluable historical work.
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 John Hope Franklin is the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History, and for seven years was Professor Legal History in the Law School at Duke University. He is a native of Oklahoma and a graduate of Fisk University. He received the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Harvard University. Professor Franklin has taught at a number of institutions, including Fisk University, St. Augustine's 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. At Chicago, he was the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor from 1969 to 1982, when he became Professor Emeritus.
Professor Franklin's numerous publications include 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 is From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans , now in its eighth edition. His Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities for 1976 was published as Racial Equality in America . In 1985, his biography of George Washington Williams received the Clarence L. Holte Literary Prize. 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 Franklin and his son, John Whittington Franklin, edited his father's My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin . In 2001, he and Loren Schweninger published Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation .
Professor Franklin has been active in numerous professional and education organizations. For many years he has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Negro History . 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 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 on the President's Advisory Commission on Ambassadorial Appointments. In September and October of 1980, he was a United States delegate to the 21 st General Conference of UNESCO. Among many other foreign assignments, Dr. Franklin has served as Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University, Consultant on American Education in the Soviet Union, Fulbright Professor in Australia, and Lecturer in American History in the People's Republic of China. In 1997 and 1998, Professor Franklin served as chairman of the advisory board for One America: The President's Initiative on Race.
Professor Franklin has been the recipient of many honors. In 1978, Who's Who in America selected Dr. Franklin as one of eight Americans who made significant contributions to society. He received the Jefferson Medal for 1984, awarded by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. In 1989, he was the first recipient of the Cleanth Brooks Medal of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and in 1990 received the Encyclopedia Britannica Gold Medal for the Dissemination of Knowledge. In 1993, Dr. Franklin received the Charles Frankel Prize for contributions to the humanities, and in 1994, the Cosmos Club Award and the Trumpet Award from Turner Broadcasting Corporation. In 1995, he received the first W.E.B. Du Bois Award from the Fisk University Alumni Association, the Organization of American Historians' Award for Outstanding Achievement, the Alpha Phi Alpha Award of Merit, the NAACP's Spingarn Medal, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1978, Professor Franklin was elected to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame and in 1997 he received the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. In addition to his many awards, Dr. Franklin has received honorary degrees from more than one hundred and thirty colleges and universities.
Professor Franklin has been the subject of various articles and books. Recently he was the subject of the film First Person Singular: John Hope Franklin. Produced by Lives and Legacies Films, the documentary was featured on PBS in June 1997. In 2004 the University of Missouri Press published
Tributes to John Hope Franklin, Scholar, Mentor, Father, Friend, edited by Beverly Jarrett.
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